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THE  JOURNAL 


OF  THE 


KILKENNY  AND  SOUTH-EAST  OF  IRELAND 


ARCHAEOLOGICAL   SOCIETY. 


VOL.  VI. 

NEW    SERIES. 


1867. 


DUBLIN: 

PRINTED    AT   THE   UNIVERSITY    PRESS. 

MCGL1SHAN  &  GILL,   50,  UPPER  SACKYILLE- STREET. 

1871. 


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The  Committee  wish  it  to  be  distinctly  understood,  that  they  do 
not  hold  themselves  responsible  for  the  statements  and  opinions 
contained  in  the  Papers  read  at  the  Meetings  of  the  Society,  and 
here  printed,  except  so  far  as  the  9th  and  10th  Amended  General 
Rules  extend. 


DUBLIN  :    PRINTED  AT  THK  UNIVERSITY  PRESS  BY  M.  H.  GILL. 


PREFACE. 


THIS  Volume  has  been  delayed  in  the  hope  that  Dr.  Arthur's 
Fee-Book — a  document  of  the  greatest 'value  to  the  Genealogist, 
as  well  as  of  interest  to  the  Medical  Profession — might  be  con- 
cluded in  it.  This  it  has  been  found  impossible  to  effect :  and 
as  the  Proceedings  and  Papers  of  the  year  1867  complete  the 
New  or  Second  Series  of  the  Society's  Journal,  they  are  now 
issued  as  a  separate  Volume. 

The  thanks  of  the  Society  are  due  to  Evelyn  Philip 
Shirley,  Esq.,  for  the  woodcuts  which  illustrate  Dineley's  Tour 
in  Ireland  ;  and  to  Maurice  Lenihan,  Esq.,  M.  R.  I.  A.,  for  com- 
municating the  transcripts  of  Dr.  Arthur's  Fee-Book. 

JAMES  GRAVES,  A.  B. 

INISNAO,  November  30,  1871. 


CONTENTS. 


Page. 
Proceedings,  January  Meeting, 1 

The  Fee-Book  of  a  Physician  of  the  Seventeenth  Century. 

By  Maurice  Lenihan,  Esq.,  Author  of  the  "  History  of  Limerick,"  ...         10 

The  Tory  Wars  of  Ulster,  with  the  History  of  the  Three  Brenans  of  the  County  of 
Kilkenny,  descriptive  of  Ireland  from  the  Restoration  to  the  Revolution. 

By  John  P.  Prendergast,  Esq.,  Barrister- at- Law, 33 

Proceedings,  April  Meeting 69 

Extracts  from  the  Journal  of  Thomas  Dineley,  Esquire,  giving  some  Account  of  his 
Visit  to  Ireland  in  the  Reign  of  Charles  II.      Continued. 

Communicated  by  Evelyn  Philip  Shirley,  Esq.,  M.  A.,  with  Notes  by  the 

Hon.  Robert  O'Brien,  and  the  Rev.  James  Graves, 73 

The  Last  of  the  O'Neills,  Earls  of  Tyrone. 

By  William  Pinkerton,  F.  S.  A.,  F.  A.  S.  L., 91 

Proceedings,  July  Meeting, 101 

Topographical  and  Historical  Illustrations  of  the   County  and  City  of  Kilkenny. 
Continued. 

By  John  Hogan, 109 

The  Fee-Book  of  a  Physician  of  the  Seventeenth  Century.      Continued. 

By  Maurice  Lenihan,  Esq.,  M.  R.  I.  A.,  Author  of  the  History  of  Limerick,       139 

Extracts  from  the  Journal  of  Thomas  Dineley,  Esquire,  giving  some  Account  of  his 
Visit  to  Ireland  in  the  Reign  of  Charles  II.      Completed. 

Communicated  by  Evelyn  Philip  Shirley,  Esq.,  M.  A.,  with  Notes  by  the 

Hon.  Robert  O'Brien,  and  the  Rev.  James  Graves, 176 

Proceedings,  October  Meeting, , 205 

An  Inquiry  into  the  Origin  of  the  Family  of  Archer  in  Kilkenny,  with  Notices  of 
other  Families  of  the  same  name  in  Ireland, 

By  J.  H.  Laurence- Archer,  Captain, 220 

Some  Additional  Facts  as  to  the  Marriage  of  James  Viscount  Thurles,  afterwards 
Duke  of  Ormonde,  and  the  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston. 

By  the  Rev.  James  Graves,  A.  B.,  M.  R.  I.  A., 232 

The  Fee-Book  of  a  Physician  of  the  Seventeenth  Century.      Continued. 

By  Maurice   Lenihan,   Esquire,   M.  R.  I.  A.,  Author  of  the   History  of 

Limerick, 230 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


1.* Square  Earthen  Fort  on  G-areendina  Hill,  near  Castlecomer, 4 

2.  "Inscribed  Boundary  Stone  at  Killeney,  near  Kells, 6 

3.*Monnt  Ivers  Castle, 75 

4.*Ballicar  Castle, 77 

5.*Clare  Castle, 78 

6.*Ballyclogh, 81 

7.*Rathlahine  Castle, 82 

8.*Ballingard,  and  the  Islands  belonging  to  the  Earl  of  Thomond, 85 

9.*Bunratty  Castle, 87 

10.* Ross  Roe  Castle, 177 

1 1.* The  Ruins  of  Quin  Abbey, 179 

12.*Monument  of  the  Mac  Namara  Family, 181 

13.*Clonrond  Castle, 182 

14.*  Clare  Castle, 183 

15.*Ennis, 184 

16.*Ruinsof  the  Abbey  of  Clare, 185 

17.*Donogoroge  Castle, 187 

18.*Scattery  Island, 188 

19.*Ballykitt, 192 

20.*Lough  Gur  Castle, 195 

2 l.*Balliugarde  Castle, 196 

22.*Carrigkenlish, 197 

23.*Cragg  Owhny, 199 

24.*Knockannaneen, ib. 

25.*             Do.                200 

26.*0'Brien's  Bridge, ib. 

27.  Archer  Seals, • To  face  p.  221 

28.  Armorial  Ensigns  of  Archer  Families,  in  the  City  of  Kilkenny,  .     .     To  face  p.  225 

***  The  Illustrations  marked  with  an  asterisk  (*)  are  in  the  text ;  the  remainder  are  Plates,  and 
the  Binder  is  requested  to  place  them  as  above  indicated. 


PROCEEDINGS  AND  PAPERS 

OF 

THE  KILKENNY  AND  SOUTH-EAST  OF  IRELAND 
ARCHAEOLOGICAL  SOCIETY, 

FOR  THE  YEAR  1667. 


ANNUAL  GENERAL  MEETING,  held  in  the  Society's  Apartments, 
William-street,  Kilkenny,  on  Wednesday,  January  the  16th 
(by  adjournment  from  the  2nd),  1867. 

BARRY  DELANY,  Esq.,  M.  D.,  in  the  Chair. 
The  following  new  Members  were  elected  : — 

His  Excellency  the  Most  Hon.  the  Marquis  of  Abercorn,  Lord 
Lieutenent  of  Ireland  :  proposed  by  the  Rev.  James  Graves. 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Penrose,  Kilkenny  :  proposed  by  the  Rev. 
N.  R.  Brunskill. 

William  Stokes,  Esq.,  M.  D.,  Regius  Professor  of  Physic,  Tri- 
nity College,  Dublin :  proposed  by  the  Rev.  John  Francis  Shear- 
man, R.  C.  C.,  M.  R.  1.  A. 

Patrick  J.  O'Kennedy,  Esq.,  Skibbereen :  proposed  by  the 
Rev.  George  Vance. 

The  Rev.  James  Graves  announced  that  His  Excellency  the 
Marquis  of  Abercorn,  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  had  honoured 
the  Society  by  consenting  to  fill  the  office  of  Patron  in  place  of 
his  predecessor,  the  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Kimberley. 

The  Committee  and  Officers  of  the  Society  were  then  unani- 
mously re-elected. 


The  Hon.  Secretary  read  the  Report  of  the  Committee  for  the 
year  1866,  as  follows: — 

"  Another  year— the  eighteenth  of  the  Society's  existence— has  passed 
away,  and  your  Committee  come  once  more  to  review  its  position  and 
count  its  gains  and  losses.  The  Roll  of  actual  paying  Members  contained, 
on  the  31st  December,  587  names  ;  of  new  Members,  45  were  elected 
during  the  year  ;  whjlst  the  names  removed  in  consequence  of  deaths,  re- 
signations, and  non-payment  of  subscriptions,  numbered  97.  Thus,  for 
the  first  time  in  so  many  years,  your  Committee  have  the  unpleasant  task 
of  noticing  a  decrease  in  the  numerical  strength  of  the  Society.  They  do 
not,  however,  look  on  this  decrease  as  indicating  more  than  a  temporary 
check  to  the  Society's  prosperity — sufficient,  however,  to  induce  the 
Members  to  exert  themselves  in  making  known  the  objects  and  acts  of 
the  Society  amongst  their  friends,  and  so,  by  procuring  recruits,  to  bring 
the  Association  up  to  its  former  strength. 

"  The  Treasurer's  account  for  1865  presents  a  favourable  view  of  the 
financial  position  of  the  Society  ;  the  balance  in  hands,  after  the  pay- 
ment of  all  demands  for  the  year,  being  an  increasing  one. 

"  The  following  Members  have  been  temporarily  removed  for  non- 
payment of  subscriptions,  but  with  the  option  of  being  restored  to 
Membership  on  clearing  off  arrears  : — 

£     a.     d. 

Mr.  T.  D.  Smith,  1862-66  .  .1100 

Denis  O'Connell,  Esq.,  M.  D.  1864-66  .  .     0  18     0 

Captain  Lonsdale  Pounden,  1864-66  .  .     0  18     0 

James  Murphy,  Esq.  1865-66  .  .     0  12     0 

M.  J.  M'Cann,  Esq.  1866  .  .060 

Mr.  Richard  Lindsay,  1866  .  .060 

James  M'Loughlin,  Esq.  1866  .  .060 

Charles  Newport,  Esq.  1866  .  .060 

"  Of  the  13  Members  removed  last  year  for  non-payment  of  subscrip- 
tions, two  have  availed  themselves  of  the  right  of  re-entering  the  Society 
on  the  liquidation  of  arrears,  viz. : — 

W.  Rushton,  Esq.  |       Thomas  Hewitt,  Esq. 

"  Your  Committee  strongly  recommend  that  such  a  change  be  made 
in  the  constitution  'of  the  Society  as  will  give  a  higher  position  amongst 
the  Members  to  those  who  evince  their  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  So- 
ciety by  subscribing  £1  or  upwards  annually.  This  may  be  effected  by 
giving  a  diploma  of  Fellowship  to  all  such  subscribers.  ' 

The  thanks  of  the  Society  are  due  to  Evelyn  P.  Shirley,  Esq.,  M.  P., 
for  the  donation  of  a  large  number  of  costly  woodcuts,  illustrating  l  Di- 
leley  s  Tour  in  Ireland  ;•  and  also  to  Mr.  Daniel  MacCarthy,  for  defray- 
ing tho  entire  cost  of  printing  several  portions  of '  The  Life  and  Letters 

Florence  MacCarthy.'  Mr.  Maurice  Lenihan  has  also  kindly  given  the 
use  of  two  woodcuts  to  the  Society. 


"  Your  Committee  cannot  conclude  without  expressing  their  regret 
at  the  demise  of  Sir  E.D.  Burrowes,  Bart,  and  of  Lieu  tenant-General  Sir 
John  Mac  Donald,  K.  C.  B.,  both  of  them  early  and  zealous  Members  of 
the  Society." 

The  balance  sheet  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  year  1865,  was  laid 
before  the  meeting. 

A  resolution  was  then  unanimously  passed  adopting  the  Report 
of  the  Committee ;  and  Mr.  J.  G.  Robertson  and  Mr.  P.  A.  Ayl- 
ward  were  requested  to  audit  the  Treasurer's  accounts  before  the 
next  meeting  of  the  Society. 

The.  Rev.  James  Graves  spoke  in  support  of  the  suggestion 
contained  in  the  Committee's  Report:  he  was  in  favour  of  raising  the 
status  of  members  willing  to  give  an  enlarged  subscription,  by  elect- 
ing them  to  Fellowships.  Many  members  paid  additional  sums  to 
the  "  Illustration  Fund,"  and  yet  ranked  only  with  the  ordinary 
subscribers  of  6s.  per  annum.  Several  of  these  subscribers  to  the 
"  Illustrated  Fund"  would  be  entitled  to  Fellowships.  It  would 
be  needful,  however,  to  obtain  the  royal  sanction  for  such  a  step, 
but  he  felt  that  the  permanency  of  the  Society  would  be  in  a  great 
degree  secured  if  this  could  be  obtained,  and  the  Society  incorpo- 
rated by  royal  charter. 

It  was  the  sense  of  the  meeting  that  a  charter  should  be  sought 
from  the  Queen  for  the  Society,  and  from  the  fact  of  His  Royal 
Highness  the  late  Prince  Consort  having  giving  his  approval  of  the 
Society,  and  also  in  consequence  of  His  Royal  Highness  the  Prince 
of  Wales  having  honoured  the  Society  by  becoming  its  Patron-in- 
Chief,  it  was  hoped  that  Her  Majesty  would  not  refuse  this 
favour. 

The  following  presentations  were  received,  and  thanks  voted  to 
the  donors : — 

By  the  Publisher  :  "  The  Builder,"  Nos.  1228-1240,  inclusive. 

By  the  Publisher  :  "  The  Gentleman's  Magazine,"  for  October, 
November,  and  December,  1866. 

By  the  Rev.  Charles  A.  Vignoles:  a  silver  fourpence  of  Char- 
les I.,  a  good  specimen  of  the  "  money  of  necessity"  coined  by  that 
monarch  during  his  contest  with  the  Parliament ;  found  near  the 
Seven  Churches  of  Clonmacnoise. 

By  Mr.  Richardson,  Ballyne,  Piltown :  a  bank  note  for  3s.  9d. 
issued  in  times  gone  by  from  the  Bank  of  Cottrell  and  Kellett, 
Cork. 

By  the  late  Charles  Ross,  Esq.,  M.  D.,  Castlecomer,  through 
Mr.  Prim:  a  plan,  laid  down  to  scale,  of  a  double  ditched  qua- 
drangular earthen  fort,  with  the  following  observations  : — 


close  to  it.  Even  in 
modern  warfare  no- 
thing could  have  been 
better  planned  for  the 
defence  of  the  pass. 
The  hill  is  on  Mr.  But- 
ler's property,  whose 
father  claimed  the 
title  of  Viscount  Gal- 
moy.  In  digging  part 
of  the  trench  some 
boards  were  discover- 
ed at  a  good  depth  — 
perhaps  indicating  the 
site  of  the  drawbridge. 
A  good  deal  of  the 
outer  rampart  has 
been  cut  down.  The 
plan  is  a  copy  of  one 
carefully  measured. 
What  a  raking  a 
column  entering  the 

e      wou]d      have 
08 

Sot   ~]  *,  was  *°*L  J 
masked  battery.    The 

fort  is  all  under  grass  —  no  thorn  trees  or  shrubs  like  a  rath." 

Mr.  Graves  observed  that  raths  of  this  quadrangular  form  were 
by  some  supposed  to  have  been  constructed  by  the  Anglo-Normans  ; 
he  was  not  himself  of  that  opinion,  though  he  must  confess  that  the 
circular  fashion  was  the  prevalent  type  of  the  primaeval  earth-  works 
of  the  country  :  he  knew  of  another  fine  quadrangular  rath  at  Castle- 
warren,  on  the  Johnswell  mountains  —  the  same  group  of  hills  which 
also  comprised  Gareendina,  though  at  several  miles  distance,  and 
at  the  western  verge  of  the  range.  Square  raths  were  also  to  be 
found  elsewhere,  as  at  Rathsaran,  near  Rathdowney,  Queen's 
County,  where  the  earth-work  having  given  its  name  to  a  town- 
land  and  parish  was  presumably  Celtic  in  its  origin.  Square  raths, 
•with  redoubts  at  the  angles,  were  likely  to  be  Anglo-Norman. 

By  Bernard  E.  B.  Fitzpatrick,  Esq.  :  ten  rubbings  of  sun-dials 
cut  on  the  stone  steps  of  the  stairs  of  the  old  tower  of  Ballagh, 
near  Lisduff,  the  seat  of  his  father,  the  Right  Hon.  John  Wilson 
Fitzpatrick.  Mr.  Fitzpatrick  wrote  as  follows  :  — 


From  «  to  *  measures  one  hundred  and  thirty-eight 
feet;  from  c  to  rf,  nineteen  feet;  from  c  to  edge  of 
outer  foss,  forty-five  feet  ;  extreme  breadth,  one 
hundred  and  eighty-three  feet. 


"  I  have  made  as  careful  a  rubbing  of  the  dials  as  I  can,  and  will  try 
and  explain  how  they  are  situated.  There  are  ten  stairs  on  which 
they  are  cut,  and  the  dials  decrease  in  size  from  the  upper  stairs  to  the 
lowest  one.  You  will  see  by  the  rubbings  that  they  are  only  semicircles, 
and  that  they  do  not  decrease  in  size  with  any  great  regularity.  They 
are  situated  opposite  two  windows,  one  window  being  placed  higher  up 
in  the  stairs  than  the  other;  the  stairs  are  circular.  I  have  numbered 
the  dials  in  the  order  they  come  on  each  stair ;  the  largest  dial,  the 
one  placed  the  highest  up  on  the  staircase,  being  numbered  No.  I,  and  so 
on  down  to  the  smallest.  I  hope  this  will  give  you  some  idea  of  their 
position,  but  it  is  very  hard  to  do  so  without  having  a  drawing  of  the 
staircase." 

This  communication  excited  much  interest,  none  of  the  members 
present  being  aware  of  any  other  instance  of  sun-dials  existing  on 
the  staircases  of  old  castles  ;  but  it  was  resolved  that  search  should 
be  made,  as  they  might  have  been  hitherto  overlooked  in  many  in- 
stances. 

Mr.  Robertson  exhibited  a  copper  "siege  piece"  struck  in 
Youghal,  and  bearing  the  initial  letters  "  Y.  T.,"  for  Youghal 
Town.  It  was  one  of  the  Youghal  local  tokens,  described  by 
Mr.  Lindsay,  and  also  by  the  Rev.  Samuel  Hayman  in  a  former 
volume  of  this  "Journal." 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Graves  informed  the  meeting  that  Mr.  Prim  and 
•he  had  recently  made  an  interesting  discovery,  having  lighted  on 
an  inscribed  boundary  stone,  of  some  antiquity — a  class  of  monu- 
ments which  he  believed  to  be  very  rare  in  this  country.  In  a  low 
wall,  separating  Colonel  Mollan's  demesne  at  Newtown  from  the 
farm  of  Mr.  William  Hutchinson  at  Killeney,  near  Kells,  was  a 
large  stone  facing  in  the  direction  of  the  latter,  on  which  was  an 
inscription,  in  raised  letters  on  a  sunk  pannel  in  two  lines,  in  old 
English  characters,  but  cut  so  lightly  on  the  undressed  face  of 
what  appeared  to  have  been  a  rough  boulder,  as  to  be  most  diffi- 
cult of  decipherment.  He  had  gone  with  Mr.  Prim  to  see  it  last 
year,  and  they  were  informed  by  Mr.  Hutchinson  that  many  peo- 
ple had  previously  attempted  to  read  it,  but  without  success.  All 
that  was  known  about  it  in  the  locality  was  that  it  was  esteemed 
from  remote  times  to  be  the  stone  which  marked  the  boundary  be- 
tween the  townlands  of  Newtown  and  Killeney,  and  also  between 
the  estates  of  the  two  proprietors.  But  whether  the  letters  on 
the  stone  indicated  so  much,  or  what  their  purport  might  be,  no 
one  could  tell.  On  this,  the  first  day  of  their  visit,  all  they  could 
make  out  was  the  single  word  "  Kelles,"  which,  although  re- 
versed, was  very  distinct  to  eyes  practised  in  the  reading  of  in- 
scriptions of  the  kind.  The  day  was  not  very  favourable  for 
reading  so  faint  an  inscription,  and  they  determined  to  pay  another 
visit,  when  the  sun  might  be  expected  to  shine  fully  on  the  stone. 


6 

Since  the  last  meeting  of  the  Society,  they  had  paid  a  second 
visit,  and  the  sun  being  more  favourable  on  that  occasion,  they 
had  succeeded  in  their  object.  The  first  discovery  made  was  that 
only  the  upper  line  of  the  inscription  was  reversed,  the  lower  one 
reading  quite  properly  "  barron  oferly."  The  reversed  line,  on 
due  examination,  was  found  to  contain  the  words  "  prediu*  of 
kelles."  The  contraction  after  the  last  letter  of  the  first  word  of 
the  upper  line  usually  denoted  that  the  letters  "  us"  should  be  sup- 
plied, so  as  to  form  the  word  predius,  but  as  there  was  no  such  word 
as  predius,  whilst  the  word  predium  meant  a  farm,  he  supposed  that 
the  stone-cutter  used  the  wrong  sign  when  engraving  the  con- 
tracted word.  The  appearance  of  the  face  of  the  inscribed  stone, 
as  it  stood  in  the  wall,  was  thus  : — 


belon 


Vn  th(Vb?£mrg  of  th<>  sixteenth  century  (the  period 
n  f  *e.Hte™  W°uld  indicate  the  inscription  to 
HT^  °frth?.fr,?y  of  Sweetman,  of  Newtown  and 

" 


the  ground.  As  it  occurred  naturally  on  the  mearing  line  between 
the  Abbey  property  and  that  of  the  Baron  of  Erley,  it  was  con- 
sidered a  convenient  boundary  mark ;  and  in  order  to  leave  no  mis- 
take on  the  subject,  the  inscriptions  were  placed,  each  facing  the 
property  which  it  described.  In  more  modern  times,  when  a  boun- 
dary fence  was  being  built,  the  land-mark  was  taken  out  of  the 
ground,  and  included  in  the  wall,  but  in  this  position  one  line  was 
necessarily  reversed.  If  it  had  been  placed  on  the  top  course  of 
the  wall,  with  the  inscribed  surface  upwards,  it  would  still  indicate 
exactly  what  had  been  intended  by  the  persons  who  traced  the  let- 
ters upon  it  nearly  three  centuries  since. 

Mr.  John  Lawler,  of  Park,  near  Ballacolla,  in  the  Queen's 
county,  sent  the  following  letter  to  the  Secretary,  which,  notwith- 
standing Mr.  Lawler's  modest  protest  against  publication,  he,  the 
Secretary,  ventured  to  print  for  the  information  of  the  members.  If 
similar  notice  were  taken  of  the  many  discoveries  incidentally  made 
throughout  the  country,  much  that  was  valuable  would  be  saved 
from,  oblivion : — 

"Permit  me  to  inform  you  that,  in  the  beginning  of  the  current  year 
(1866),  a  human  skeleton  and  a  kind  of  vessel  composed  of  clay  and  pow- 
dered granite,  were  accidentally  discovered  under  a  rock  on  part  of  the 
lands  of  Cuffsborough,  in  the  occupation  of  a  farmer  named  Sheil,  and 
•within  a  short  distance  of  Gortnaclea  (or  the  Field  of  the  stakes),  of 
historical  fame  for  a  battle  fought  there  by  the  Dalcassians,  returning 
from  Clontarf,  and  the  Ossorians.  On  hearing  of  it,  but  a  few  days 
past,  I  thought  it  strange  that  such  a  discovery  had  been  so  little  spoken 
of  in  this  neighbourhood,  and,  accordingly,  I  went  to  take  a  view  of  the 
place,  and  I  was  informed  by  Mr.  Sheil,  that  in  one  of  his  fields  there  was 
an  immense  mass  of  rock  which  he  considered  an  obstruction  to  his  agri- 
cultural operations,  and  consequently  he  set  about  moving  it  by  blasting. 
In  doing  so  he  found  the  rock  projecting  outwards,  and  at  the  base,  about 
ten  feet  from  the  top,  he  met  with  flags,  which  he  at  once  concluded  had 
been  placed  there  by  human  hands,  and  which,  on  further  search,  he  found 
to  be  the  covering  of  a  kind  of  vault,  constructed  of  such  flags,  about  four 
feet  square,  where  the  skeleton  lay,  partly  in  a  sitting  posture,  the  ves- 
sel at  the  knees,  and  all  covered  with  sand  and  clay  mixed,  and  as  fine  as 
if  they  had  been  sifted.  I  saw  the  flags,  which  were  rough  and  un- 
wrought,  and  the  fragments  of  the  vessel,  but  the  bones  were  returned 
to  their  former  resting-place.  In  an  adjoining  townland  a  similar  dis- 
covery was  made  some  twenty  years  back,  but  this  was  covered  to  a  con- 
siderable height  with  clay,  formed  like  a  round  hill ;  and  also  convenient 
to  this  village,  two  skeletons  have  been  discovered  in  a  cave  under  a  pile 
of  rocks,  by  persons  in  search  of  some  supposed  hidden  treasures ;  but 
there  is  a  very  strange  story  (though  true),  connected  with  this,  and  I 
am  of  opinion  that  on  further  search  some  interesting  discoveries  might 
be  made.  It  appears  to  me  that  these  monuments  of  antiquity  reveal  a 
good  deal  about  ancient  peoples,  and  customs  in  olden  times  ;  but  for  a 
person  of  my  limited  knowledge  to  pretend  to  say  anything  about  such 


nutters  would  only  be  presumption,  and,  therefore,  hearing  that  a  Society 
of  which  you,  Sir,  are  a  Member,  takes  an  interest  in  such  things  I  took 
the  liberty  of  penning  these  few  lines,  not  for  publication,  but  for  the 
information  of  your  Society,  as  I  thought  such  things  might  be  of  some 
public  interest." 

Mr.  George  Morant,  Jun.,  of  Shirley  House,  Carrickmacross, 
sent  the  following  paper  :— 

"  As  I  think  that  the  discovery  of  numerous  flint  implements  in  this 
neighbourhood  may  be  likely  to  interest  many  of  the  readers  of  our 
4  Journal,'  I  send  you  a  short  account  of  the  'finds.' 

"  The  lake  of  Ballyhoe,  distant  about  five  miles  from  Carrickmacross, 
is  situated  on  the  southern  verge  of  the  county  of  Monaghan,  the  greater 
part  of  the  lake  being  in  Meath.  It  is  of  horse-shoe  form,  and  is  a  good 
many  acres  in  extent  The  River  Glyde,  or  Lagan,  runs  through  it,  and 
by  this  stream  it  is  connected  with  several  smaller  lakes  lying  more  to 
the  northward  in  the  county  of  Monaghan.  The  river  runs  into  the  lake 
at  the  toe  of  the  horse-shoe,  and  the  water  there  is  very  shallow,  owing 
to  the  large  deposit  of  mud  brought  down  by  the  river.  In  the  lake  are 
two  artificial  islands — one  of  great  extent,  the  other  much  smaller.  In 
the  large  island  are  numerous  mounds  which  have  been  partially  exca- 
vated, I  believe  by  the  engineers  of  the  Board  of  Works.  In  the  large  is- 
land I  have  found  two  fine  specimens  of  bronze  pins,  besides  other  articles 
of  less  interest  in  lead  and  iron,  and  a  flint  spear  head.  The  shores  of  the 
lake  are,  for  the  most  part,  boggy  and  full  of  large  timber,  stumps  and 
stems  appearing  in  great  quantities  both  above  and  below  the  level  of  the 
water,  which  was  reduced  several  feet  some  years  ago  by  the  drainage  of 
the  Glyde  river.  The  centre  of  the  horse-shoe  is  occupied  by  a  peninsula 
of  bog  land  with  a  coating  of  grass  ;  this  tract  also  abounds  with  timber, 
the  stumps  in  many  places  projecting  above  the  soil. 

"It  was  on  the  6th  of  August,  1864,  that,  after  an  unsuccessful 
search  in  the  great  island,  we  were  returning  homewards  along  the  east 
shore  of  this  peninsula,  when  we  observed  two  chert  spear-heads  lying 
just  beneath  the  water  at  its  lowest  summer  level,  and  immediately  after- 
wards, a  few  yards  further  along  the  shore,  a  rude  stone  hatchet  of  about 
six  inches  in  length,  and  two  deep  in  its  broadest  part.  This  find  of 
course  put  us  on  the  qui  vive,  and  the  following  spring,  when  the  winter 
floods  had  subsided,  we  proceeded  to  search  very  carefully  the  shores  of 
this  peninsula.  The  result  has  been  the  collection  of  a  great  many  flint 
implements  of  various  types.  We  found  many  of  them  lying  on  the  sur- 
face evidently  washed  out  of  the  bog  by  wave  action  during  winter ; 
many  more  we  discovered  by  paring  off  the  grassy  sod  which  overlies  the 
peat ;  the  greater  number  were  lying  a  few  inches  only  below  the  surface 
of  the  boggy  soil;  others  further  down  in  the  peat,  and  beneath  it  upon 
a  stony  subsoil ;  we  generally  found  ashes  where  these  flint  implements 
lay,  and  with  the  flints  were  pieces  of  broken  celts,  or  possibly  polishers. 
In  one  place  a  dark-coloured  glass  bead  of  a  barrel  shape  was  found  along 
with  the  flint  flakes;  and  in  another  a  leaden  bullet.  Very  near  the  same 
place,  and  close  to  the  stump  of  a  large  tree,  we  found  a  very  fine  polished 
(tone  hatchet  with  squared  sides ;  its  cutting  edge  only  was  exposed  to 


view  as  it  lay  in  a  water- worn  declivity  of  the  boggy  shore.  Its  edge  is 
almost  as  sharp  as  that  of  a  modern  axe,  and  quite  uninjured.  Not  far 
from  the  same  spot  we  found  lying  in  one  of  the  holes  made  in  the  bog  by 
the  feet  of  cattle  a  beautiful  little  arrowhead  of  triangular  form,  chipped 
to  an  exquisite  sharpness,  and  curved  inwards  at  the  base  to  form  the 
barbs ;  this  arrow  head  is  of  dark  flint.  Along  with  the  flint  flakes, 
knives,  scrapers,  arrow  and  spear  heads,  or  whatsoever  they  may  be,  we 
found  many  specimens  in  chert  or  Lydian  stone,  and  many  chips  and 
flakes  of  both  flint  and  chert  besides  the  more  regularly  formed  l  imple- 
ments.' Close  to  a  large  flint  4  spear  head,'  little,  if  at  all,  less  rude  than 
those  of  the  Amiens  type,  we  found  a  stone  celt  of  small  size  slightly 
damaged,  and  portions  of  others  ;  these  were  lying  on  the  stony  substra- 
tum, having  evidently  been  washed  out  of,  or  exposed  by  the  washing 
away  of,  the  peat  above ;  nearer  to  the  spot  where  the  Kiver  Glyde  runs 
out  of  the  lake  we  found  two  different  types  of  worked  flint  arrow-heads 
of  light-coloured  flint ;  one  barbed,  about  an  inch  and  three-quarters  long, 
the  other  two  inches  in  length,  and  of  a  peculiar  form,  which  I  have  not 
observed  elsewhere;  the  latter  was  found  on  the  bank  of  the  river  just 
below  where  it  leaves  the  lake,  and  where  a  deep  cutting  had  been  made 
in  the  drainage  works.  Near  this  spot  was  anciently  a  ford,  the  scene  of 
several  encounters  between  the  Danes  and  Irish,  and  where,  in  later 
times,  the  forces  of  Elizabeth  and  the  rebels,  under  Tyrone,  met  in  battle 
array.  In  a  field,  on  the  Meath  side  of  the  river,  stood  a  castle  of  which 
no  vestige  now  remains  above  the  ground.  The  foundation  may,  how- 
ever, still  be  traced,  and  many  articles  have,  from  time  to  time,  been 
ploughed  and  dug  up  about  the  site  of  this  old  fortalice  of  the  Pale.  I 
have  seen  a  fine  silver  coin  of  Mary,  which  was  found  there,  and  I  have 
in  my  possession  a  very  good  specimen  of  a  pin  brooch  in  bronze,  with 
red  enamel  setting,  of  a  type  figured  in  Wilde's  Catalogue,  from  the  same 
place.  All  these  relics  of  supposed  various  ages — bronze  pins,  sharpening 
stones,  a  flint  spear-head,  leaden  bullets,  and  iron  implements  from  the 
1  crannoges,'  flint  flakes,  hatchets,  celts,  highly  finished  flint  arrow-heads 
from  the  shores  of  the  lake,  incline  me  to  believe  that  the  now  generally 
accepted  divisions  of  the  ages  of  stone,  bronze,  and  iron,  are  not  borne 
out  in  this  instance.  The  great  *  crannoge'  which  I  have  mentioned  above 
is  only  separated  from  the  main  land  by  a  shallow  channel,  and  is  in 
summer  accessible  by  a  narrow  causeway.  In  one  of  its  mounds,  princi- 
pally composed  of  ashes,  I  have  found  leaden  bullets,  sharpening  stones, 
and  implements  of  iron;  on  its  shores  the  bronze  pins  above  mentioned, 
and  the  flint  spear-head ;  and  on  the  edges  of  the  lake  close  by,  the  flint 
arrow-heads,  hatchets,  &c.,  all  of  which,  found  at  about  the  same  level, 
were  certainly  submerged  until  the  drainage  works  in  the  Glyde  river 
permanently  reduced  the  height  of  the  lake  by  several  feet.  From  this  I 
should  infer  that  most  of  these  things  were  used  at  one  and  the  same  time, 
by  the  same  race  of  men,  the  flint  flakes  being  the  ruder  weapons  and  im- 
plements of  the  common  people,  while  the  more  highly  finished  arrow-heads 
tipped  the  shafts  of  the  chiefs,  whose  cloaks  were  fastened  with  pins  of 
bronze,  while  their  followers  were  content  to  substitute  bone  for  the  same 
purpose.  The  bullets  found  in  the  *  crannoges'  certainly  prove  that  these 
island  dwellings  were  occupied  at  a  comparatively  late  date;  and  judging 

C 


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n  New  Zealand  in  our  own  times,  where  the  stone  hatchet,  and  the 
mnTarrow-head  have  been  laid  aside  for  the  iron  tomahawk  and  the  musket 
wTtnfnaTew  years,  it  seems  not  impossible  that  the  flint,  stone,  and  bronze 
3-entrLylU  been  in  use  in  this  country  at  a  penod  far  later 
than  *  prehistoric'  antiquarians  would  lead  us  to  believe. 

The  following  papers' were  then  submitted  to  the  meeting  :— 


ANCIENT  11Q5S  AND  OlldTTmS. 

THE  FEE-BOOK  OF  A  PHYSICIAN  OF  THE  SEVENTEENTH 

CENTURY. 

BY    MAURICE    LENIHAN    ESQ.,    AUTHOR    OF    THE    "  HISTORY    OF 
LIMERICK,"    &C.  &C. 

FROM  the  days  of  Dianechet,  who,  we  are  told,  was^the  earliest 
Irish  physician,  and  whose  name,  according  to  "  Cormac's  Glossary," 
is  thus  explained : — "  Deus  Salutis,  T)ia  na  h-eci,  the  God  of  Cur- 
ing,"1 down  to  our  own  days,  the  "  art  of  healing"  has  been  at  all 
times  regarded  with  very  great  reverence,  and  its  professors  have 
been  looked  upon  with  the  highest  respect  by  the  Irish  people. 

There  is  no  period  of  our  history  in  which  we  are  not  furnished 
with  the  wonders  wrought  through  the  instrumentality  of  the  fa- 
culty ;  not  a  few  of  whom,  not  only  realized  most  influential  posi- 
tions some  centuries  ago,  but  became  the  founders  of  families  which 
in  some  instances  were  ennobled.  The  "Brehon  Laws"  not  only 
make  mention  of  physicians  during  the  earliest  periods  of  authentic 
Irish  history,  but  they  define  the  amount  of  fees  to  be  paid  for  par- 
ticular operations  or  attendances.  The  Ollamh  was  to  receive  the 
same  joint  of  meat  as  the  king ;  the  persons  of  the  Ollarnhp  were 
regarded  as  sacred ;  their  possessions  inviolate  ;  no  impost  was  to 
be  levied  off  them ;  an  honourable  maintenance,  and  certain  por- 
tions of  land  were  to  be  theirs,  without  any  disturbing  cause  what- 
soever to  interfere  with  the  enjoyment  of  their  rights  and  properties. 
In  the  reign  of  Tigherrnas,  A.M.  2816,  according  to  Keating,  men 
of  learning  were  allowed  the  same  number  of  colours  in  their  clothes 
as  princes  of  the  blood.  In  A.  M.  3075,  Aldergordh,  according  to 
the  same  authority,  directed  physicians  to  wear  gold  rings.  The 
lia£,  or  doctor,  or  leech,  as  the  doctor  was  called,  took  rank  with  the 
gold-workers  in  ancient  times,  and  was  the  Ollamh,  or  the  highest 
order  of  his  particular  caste. 

»  Sir  William  Wilde's  Introduction  to     in  the  general  Census  of  Ireland  for  the 
the  Report  on  the  Tables  of  Deaths,  &c.,      year  1851. 


11 

A  long  period  appears  to  have  been  occupied  by  the  Ollamh,  or 
liag,  in  the  treatment  of  the  patient,  and  exemplary  was  the 
penalty  imposed  on  him  who  inflicted  the  wound  or  caused  the 
sickness  to  which  the  doctor  was  called  to  minister ;  for  not  only 
was  the  lia$  entitled  to  his  diet  during  the  progress  of  the  disease, 
and  until  the  patient  was  fully  restored  to  health,  but  four  pupils 
who  waited  on  him  were  also  fed  during  the  whole  time,  at  the  cost 
of  the  transgressor ;  whilst  the  time  allowed  for  the  cure  of  a 
wound  in  hand  or  arm  was  one  year ;  a  wound  on  the  leg,  a  year 
and  a  quarter ;  and  for  a  wound  on  the  head,  three  years  were 
allowed  for  a  perfect  cure !  Whether  the  patient  or  the  guilty  one 
was  more  to  be  pitied  under  these  circumstances  we  shall  not 
pronounce  ;  but  the  Liag  ran  his  own  risk  too  ;  and  though  he  en- 
joyed the  privileges  of  the  Qipeach  Gpb,'  he  was  made  respon- 
sible for  negligence  and  unskilfulness,  and  if  convicted  of  either, 
had  to  pay  for  his  diet  and  for  that  of  his  pupils,  and  to  refund  the 
fees  at  the  same  time. 

To  the  great  Ollamh  Fodlha,  as  he  is  called,  is  due  the  refor- 
mation and  revival  of  the  practice  of  physic  in  Ireland.  It  was 
he  who  confined  for  ever  the  practice  of  the  healing  art  to  certain 
families  throughout  the  kingdom,  and  in  order  that  no  interruption 
should  be  given  to  the  learned  in  their  different  pursuits  and  studies, 
he  exacted  a  law  which  was  to  be  deemed  immutable  and  perpe- 
tual, that  in  all  intestine  wars,  troubles,  irruptions,  &c.,  there  should 
be  no  interference  with  their  privileges  and  persons.  And  so  it  was, 
as  Keating  assures  us,  and  as  all  our  annalists  coincide  in  assert- 
ing, even  for  a  long  period  of  time  after  the  English  invasion. 

This  may  have  been  one  of  the  supervening  causes  why  me- 
dicine attained  so  high  a  place  in  Ireland,  even  in  pagan  times, 
when  the  Irish  School  of  Physic  was  frequented  by  foreigners,  one 
of  whom  we  are  told  was  Sosina,  ninth  King  of  Scotland,  and  one 
of  the  successors  of  Fergus,  who,  by  his  parents'  permission,  was 
educated  among  the  physicians  and  surgeons  of  Ireland  until  he 
had  reached  man's  estate.  He  is  said  to  have  written  the  work 
De  Herbarum  Virtutibus  et  Viribus,  and  to  have  died,  according  to 
Lesley,  B.  C.  161,  or  according  to  Bale,  A.  M.  3826,  or  B.C.  137. 
We  have  no  certainty  that  physic  was  taught  in  the  great  schools 
of  Armagh,  Mungret,  Lismore,  Clonroad,  &c. ;  but  if  we  judge  by 
the  quantities  of  medicinal  herbs  which  even  yet  bloom  and  flourish 
among  the  ruins  of  some  of  those  famous  places — for  instance, 
Mungret — we  must  conclude  that  the  healing  art  in  all  its  branches 
was  taught  in  those  academies.  Whether  this  be  the  fact  or  not, 
it  is  certain  that  even  to  this  day  the  Irish  people  are,  in  many 

1  This  was   a  landowner,   who    had      tagh  class,  ten  of  "whom  paid  him  tribute 
twenty  lieges  or  retainers  of  the  Bia-      without  refection. 


12 

parts  of  the  country,  thoroughly  and  intimately  acquainted,  not  only 
with  the  names  of,  but  with  the  medicinal  virtues,  and  the  method 
of  mixing,  herbs,  in  order  that  the  patient  may  receive  the  full  be- 
nefit of  the  draught,  or  of  the  exterior  application,  whichever  it 
may  be.     Caleb  Threlkeld,  who  wrote  the  Synopsis  styrpium  Hi- 
bernicarum  (Dublin,  A.  D.  1727) ;  and  John  K'Eough,  the  author 
of  the  Botanuloyia  Universalis  Hibernica  (Cork,  A.  D.  1735),  were 
not  better  acquainted  with  the  curative  powers  of  herbs  than  great 
numbers  among  the  Irish  peasantry.     In  other  instances,  too,  the 
Irish  have  shown  their  knowledge :    In  the  "  Irish  sweating  house" 
we  find  an  analogy  to  the  fashionable  Turkish  bath  of  modern  days ; 
and  in  the  "  earth  bath"  of  the  celebrated  St.  John  Long,  we  dis- 
cover a  reproduction  of  the  "earth  bath"  which  was  taken  in  his 
drunken  fits  by  Shane  O'Neill,  surnamed  Na  Dinis,  or  the  Proud. 
The  works   of  Galen   and   Hippocrates  were   known  to  the 
Ollamhp.     Cormac,    King  and  Archbishop  of  Cashel,    was  well 
acquainted,  too,  with  Hippocrates,  as  his  writings  bear  witness. 
O'Halloran  tells  us  that  he  (O'Halloran)  had  in  his  possession  a 
manuscript  translation  of  Hippocrates  written  in  Irish,  which  was 
lent  to  him  by  Charles  O'Conor,  Esq.,  of  Ballinagare,  and  of  very 
great  antiquity,  whereas  the  earliest  edition  of  Hippocrates  that 
appeared  in  Europe  is  a  translation  from  the  Arabic,  printed  at 
Venice,  A.  D.,  1493  :  "  The  text  of  the  Irish  MS.  is  in  Latin,  in 
Irish  capitals,  elegantly  penned,  each  aphorism  being  literally  ren- 
dered into  Irish,  with  copious  explanatory  notes  in  the  same  lan- 
guage, in  which  the  medicines  necessary  to  remove  the  different 
defects  are  minutely  detailed,"  &c.,  &c.     Indeed,  there  are  clear 
and  technical  terms  in  the  Irish  language  for  all  the  diseases  of 
physic  and  surgery,  many  of  which  most  modern  nations  borrow 
From  the  Greek  and  Latin  tongues.    What  the  nature  was  of  all  the 
diseases  which  the  lia£r  healed  we  are  not  clearly  told  ;  but  it  would 
Appear  that  leprosy  prevailed  to  a  great  extent  in  Ireland  before  and 
itter  the  English  invasion.     In  Limerick,  a  Leper  Hospital  was 
endowed  by  royal  grant ;  and  at  the  comparatively  late  era  of  the 
.Iteenth  century  the  master  of  the  hospital  resided  in  Mungret- 
reet,  in  that  city.1    One  of  King  John's  earliest  grants  to  wlter- 
ford  were  the  lands  now  called  Leperstown,  to  endow  an  hospital 
w  hich  he  caused  to  be  erected  in  that  city  in  thanksgiving  for  hav- 
ing been  cured  of  leprosy  by  drinking  of  the  waters  of  a  famous  well, 

whilst  at  Lil         *%? ''  the  (?l8ea8e  he  i8  Said  to  have  contracted 

1st  at  Lismore,  and  from  eating  of  salmon.    Waterford  has  pre- 

£rved  its  richly  endowed  Leper  Hospital  to  this  day  ;  and  it  ha* 

been  the  only  county  m  Ireland  in  which  the  County  Hospital  hat 

been  supported  by  county  rates  and  taxes.    Grants  f or  the  alle" 

1  Lenihan's  "History  of  Limerick." 


13. 

viation  of  disease  were  so  frequent  that  hospitals  became  wealthy  ; 
whilst  the  Lm$  was  attached  to  the.  court  or  to  the  nobleman's 
family,  or  to  that  of  the  chieftain,  and  was  held  in  equal  reverence 
with  the  historian,  the  bard,  the  poet,  the  musician.  At  the  time 
that  Camden  wrote  there  was  no  territory  in  Ireland  without  its 
hereditary  physicians,  bards,  &c.,  &c.,  the  great  majority  of  whom 
were  men  of  ability  and  learning,  as  well  versed  in  the  classics  of 
antiquity  as  in  their  own  native  tongue,  and  they  were  also  masters 
or  writers  on  medicine,  whether  in  Greek  or  Latin.  It  could  not 
be  otherwise,  because  though  the  professions  of  physic  and  surgery 
were  hereditary  in  families,  they  never  descended  in  regular  suc- 
cession ;  the  most  distinguished  of  the  tribe  were  the  candidates  ; 
and  of  those  the  most  eminent  were  called  to  the  succession.1  By 
this  salutary  law,  a  generous  emulation  constantly  subsisted  be- 
tween the  learned  professions.  In  Egypt  and  Greece,  too,  the  pro- 
fession of  physic  was  hereditary  in  certain  families.  Hippocrates 
was  the  eighteenth  descendant  from  ./Esculapius.  The  many  Irish 
medicinal  MSS.  in  the  Royal  Irish  Academy,  in  the  Library  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  and  elsewhere,  prove  the  extent  and  na- 
ture of  the  Ollamh'p  acquirements,  and  the  facilities  he  possessed 
of  extracting  from  herbs  those  virtues  which  to  this  hour  the  Irish 
people  attribute  to  them. 

As  to  the  names  of  the  hereditary  physicians,  Liag  (Lee),  or  TTlac 
Liag,  was  the  name  of  the  hereditary  physician  of  Brian  Boroihme, 
and  he  was  an  exquisite  poet  also ;  his  name  gave  evidence  of  his 
curing  powers,  whilst  his  "  Laments  of  Kincora,"  A.  D.  1055,2  can- 
not be  read  without  emotion. 

The  O'Lees,  to  whom  belonged  the  celebrated  medical  work 
called  the  Lilium  Medicines,  which  is  said  to  have  been  written  by 
Bernard  Gordon,  a  Scotchman,  in  1303,3  were  the  hereditary  phy- 
sicians of  the  O'Flaherties  of  West  Connaught  ;  they  may  have 
been  descendants  of  the  Mac  Liaghs.  The  O'Hickies  were  body 
physicians  to  the  O'Briens  of  Thomond,  the  Mac  Namaras  of  Clare, 
the  O'Kennedys  of  Ormond,  and  the  Mac  I  Briens  of  Arra.  The 
name  of  Hickie,  like  that  of  Liagh,  is  indicative  of  their  calling. 
The  Irish  word  Iche  signifies  embalming  or  curing.  The  burial- 
place  of  this  famous  family  of  doctors  was  in  the  ancient  graveyard 
of  Teampul-a-Calla,  in  the  Barony  of  Owney  and  Arra,  county  of 
Tipperary,  parish  of  Teampul  a  Calla,  and  Kilmastulla,  and  within 
a  short  distance  of  Killaloe,  from  which  it  is  divided  by  the  Shan- 
non. In  that  parish,  too,  they  enjoyed  considerable  property  in 

1  O'Halloran's  retrospective  view  of  3  There  are  extant  several  copies  of 
the  ancient  state  of  physic  amongst  us,  this  celebrated  book,  one  of  which  is  pre- 
presented  to  Lucius  O'Brien,  Esq.,  M.  P.  served  in  the  British  Museum ;  Mr.  Mac 
for  the  Borough  of  Ennis.  Adam,  of  Belfast,  has  also  a  copy  in  his 

2  See  Hardiman's  "  Irish  Minstrelsy."  possession. 


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land  which  they  forfeited  in  the  rebellion  of  1 64 1 ,  they  being  « Irish 
&**  During  my  frequent  visits  to  that  neighbourhood  m  he 
summe  of  this  yVl867,  I  happened  to  light  on  the  tomb  of  ^ 
O'Hickies,  which  I  regret  to  add  is  much  neglected  and  going  to 
ruin-  it  is  built  of  the  old  red  sandstone  of  the  district;  it  was  for- 
merly  enclosed  by  a  wall  and  a  canopy  or  roof;  on  the  slab,  which 
lies  flat  on  the  ground,  is  this  inscription  traversing  a  large  Greek 
cross : — 

ANNO     E.    8.    H. 

1648 

MON  UMENTUM     HOC 
SIBI     CAEISSIMJS 

U  X  0  E  I 

ET     POSTEEIS     FIERI 

FECIT       CLAEISSIMUS 

D.    D.      JOANNES     HICZEY 

MEDICINE 
DOCTOE     PERITISSIMUS. 

The  tomb  lies  near  the  north-eastern  extremity  of  the  grave- 
yard, in  which  I  may  add  there  are  many  other  curious  and  in- 
teresting mementos  of  mortality.  The  O'Nealans,  also,  were  here- 
ditary physicians  to  the  renowned  Dalgass,  or  militia  of  Thomond — 
and  there  was  an  old  saying,  if  a  person  were  too  far  gone  in  sick- 
ness for  cure — in  chej  piobh  leajha  na  bhpionne,  "  The  physicians 
of  the  royal  militia  would  not  raise  him." 

The  Maddens,  or  Maddans,  or  Madans,  as  the  name  is  variously 
written,  of  Waterford,  who  were  hunted  to  Cuba  or  to  Connaught 
by  Cromwell,  numbered  able  physicians  in  the  family.  A  small 
portion  of  the  Waterford  property  was  saved  to  them ;  and  this 
their  descendants  possess  to  this  day.  In  more  recent  years  their 
agent  in  that  city  (Mr.  John  Power,  Galway),  having  had  occasion 
to  make  searches  in  London,  discovered  a  box  of  valuable  papers 
belonging  to  the  Maddans,  at  Barnwall's  Bank,  in  London.  Among 
these  papers  was  a  petition  from  the  then  dominant  party  in  Wa- 
terford to  the  Lord  Protector,  "  praying  that  the  celebrated  Doctor 
Madden  should  not  be  exiled  to  Connaught,  as  there  was  none 
other  to  replace  him."  Cromwell's  ^a£,  with  his  autograph,  was  to 
the  document,  which  was  so  precious  in  the  eyes  of  the  Maddan  to 
whom  it  came,  that  he  declared  he  would  not  part  with  it  for 
all  his  Waterford  property ;  he  added  that  it  would  be  a  patent 
of  nobility  to  him,  and  to  his  children  for  ever. 

»  See  "  Book  of  Distribution"  of  the  Oge  Hickey  of  the  same,  physician.  Ir. 
County  of  Tinperary,  "  No.  90,  Morish  Pa.,  Ballycorrigane,  134  acres."  See  also 
Hickey,  of  Ballycorigane,  and  Daniel  the  "  Down  Survey"  of  the  same  county. 


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The  O'  Shells1  were  the  hereditary  physicians  of  theM'Coughlans 
of  Devlin,  in  the  King's  County,  and  of  the  Mac  Mahons  of  Oriel ; 
the  O'Canavans,  and  O'Callanans  were  the  physicians  of  the  county 
of  Galway,  according  to  O'Flaherty.2  A  branch  of  the  O'Callanans 
settled  in  the  county  of  Cork,  and  were  in  such  repute,  that  in  the 
days  of  O'Halloran,  to  describe  the  situation  of  an  incurable  it  was 
a  common  expression,  l\li  leishir  piobh  O'Callenan  peine  ;  "  Even 
O'Callanan  wouldnot  cure  him."  TheO'Callanans,  too,  were  the  here- 
ditary physicians  of  the  Mac  Carthys  Reagh  of  Carbery ;  the  O'Ca- 
navans,3 as  well  as  the  O'Lees,  were  doctors  in  West  Connaught, 
as  were  the  Fergusses4  in  West  Mayo,  and  the  O'Donlevys  in 
Tyrconnell ;  and  a  branch  of  this  family  also  became  physicians  to 
the  O'Donnells.  The  O'Fergusses  were  professors  of  eminence  in 
Mayo,  the  O'Dungenans  in  Breffny,  and  part  of  the  county  Leitrim ; 
the  O'Dunleavies  and  O'Cassideys  in  Fermanagh. 

The  O'Mearas,  natives  of  the  district  in  Upper  Ormond,  county 
of  Tipperary,  called  Toomevara,  where  a  curious  ancient  monu- 
ment to  a  member  of  the  family  may  yet  be  seen,  and  one  of  whom, 
viz.,  Dermod  O'Meara,  wrote  the  Pathologia  Hereditaria  Generalis, 
and  was  the  author  also  of  a  poem  in  praise  of  the  Earl  of  Ormonde, 
his  patron,  were  the  physicians  of  the  Butlers.  The  O'Boulgers, 
the  O'Meallens,  the  O'Quins,  and  others  of  equal  distinction,  not 
only  practised  with  success,  but  wrote  with  ability ;  their  tracts  and 
treatises  have  been  preserved  among  the  priceless  MSS.  not  only 
of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  the  Royal  Irish  Academy,  the  British 
Museum,  the  Royal  Library  of  Paris,  the  Libraries  of  Madrid, 
Salamanca,  Alcala,  Vienna,  &c.,  but  in  the  private  collections  of 
learned  men,  who  have  cherished  them  with  the  same  amount  of 
fondness  that  the  early  physicians  themselves  are  said  to  have  loved 
their  own  smoke-begrimed  and  dusky  vellum  treasures,  for  which  Ed- 
mund Campion5  tells  us  they  entertained  an  extraordinary  fondness, 
and  which  were  written  mostly  in  the  Irish  language  and  charac- 
ter. The  Irish  Medical  Manuscripts  in  Ireland  alone,  a  catalogue 
of  which  is  furnished  by  Sir  William  Wilde,  in  his  historical  intro- 
duction to  the  Reports  on  the  Census,  1851,  are  of  inestimable  value, 
and  shed  a  strong  light  on  the  state  of  the  art  or  science  at  a  period 
when  but  little  that  was  really  valuable  was  known  of  it  through- 
out Europe.  In  fact,  O'Connor,  King  of  Ulster,  A.  M.  3950,  who 
had  his  skull  violently  fractured  by  a  famous  hero  of  Connaught,  had 
the  broken  parts  knit  together  by  his  physician  Feignin  Feathig,  by 
an  operation  now  known  to  surgery  as  trepanning,  but  which  was 

1  O'Sheil's  book  is  in  the  Royal  Irish  4  The  Medicine  Book  of  the  Fergusses 
Academy.  is  in  Trinity  College  Library,  Dublin. 

2  Ogygia,  P-  365.  6  See  "  A  Historie  of  Ireland,"  written 

3  One  of  O'Cannavan's  books  in  the  in  1571  by  Edmond  Campion,  afterwards 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  Library.  a  Jesuit. 


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then  unknown  to  any  other  school  of  surgery  in  the  world  except 
the  Irish.  We  have  every  reason  to  be  proud  of  *the  position 
which  Irish  physicians  attained  in  ages  long  gone  by,  ^whilst  in 
our  own  age  they  rank  with  the  first  physicians  in  the  world,  the 
Dublin  Schools  of  Medicine  and  of  Surgery  being  admittedly  unsur- 
passed. 

We  are  not  aware,  however,  that  any  of  these  early  Imgp  or 
Ollamhp,  or  those  who  followed  closely  on  their  footsteps,  set  down, 
day  after  day,  in  their  fee  or  case-books,  if  any  such  they  possessed, 
the  name  and  quality  of  the  patient,  the  nature  of  the  disease,  the 
amount  of  the  fee,  the  repetition  of  the  visit,  the  result,  &c.     We 
have,  indeed,  in  the  "  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,"  in  the  "  Book  of 
Leinster,"  in  the  Irish  Version  of  "Nennius,"  in  the  "  Annals  of  Clon- 
macnoise,"and  of  Innisfallen,  in  Grace's  "  Annals,"  in  the  "  Book  of 
Lecan,"in  the  *«  Annals  of  Ulster,"  in  the  "  Chronicon  Scotorum,"in 
Colgan's  "  Acta  Sanctorum,"  in  the  "  Annals  of  Tigernach,"  in  the 
"Book  of  Obits  of  Christ  Church,"  in  the  "Liber  Hymnorum,"  in  the 
"  Book  of  Landaff,"and  in  a  variety  of  other  equally  authentic  sources, 
including  Wares  "  Annals,"  Dowling  and  Clynn's  "Annals,"  &c",' 
copious  and  interesting  details  of  the  various  phases  and  symptoms 
by  which  the  pestilences,  plagues,  epidemics,  &c.,  by  which  Ireland 
was  visited  in  the  early  and  medieval  times  were  marked ;  and  of 
the  wholesale  destruction  which  these  visitations  caused.     Richard 
Stanihurst,  Hooker,  Keating,  Mageoghegan,  and  others,  also  count 
over  the  sad  story  of  the  fearful  effects  of  these  dreadful  inflictions 
and  their  frequent  accompaniments,  famine,   tempests,  floods,  &c 
We  hear  of  the  Camh1   becoming  a  monthly  visitant  of  the  land  in 
the  reign  of  eochmoh  Opcha3h,  A.M.,  4248  ;  again,  A.M.,  5001 
in  the  reign  Oi  bpeapail  boDhiobhat>h,  «  a  loss  of  cows  came  so  that 
only  one  bull  and  a  heifer  survived."     Eclipses  of  the  sun  and 
moon  were  frequent.     Deaths  by  lightning  were  common.2    Jaun- 
dice   or  yellow  sickness  (bumhe  Chonncnl),  carried  off  its  victims 
by  thousands,  and  left,  in  almost  every  city  and  town   its  name  to 
the  road  by  which  the  sick  were  carried  to  hospital,  or  near  t 
which  the  hospital  was  erected.3     The  Cpom  ChoiLl ,  or  acLd- 
ing  to  Peter  Walshe's  Prospect  of  Ireland,  -the  f.^-~~™™l 
candle 


Th-- 

This  sickness        anno   665    (according  to   O'Briens 


preceed  by  the  earthquake 


.,1!  nigh  n.  «own  „  ,re. 
l»d  without  it,   bocho,p    bu,t>h,    or 


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people  perished.  Again,  in  long  ages  afterwards  the  Mouses,  a 
species  of  inflammatory  catarrh  or  influenza,  came  ;  and  then  in 
A.JD.,  1341,  the  barking  mania,  which  commenced  with  a  certain 
man  in  Leinster,  putting  on  his  hands  a  pair  of  gloves  which  he  had 
found,  and  he  beginning  to  bark  like  a  dog,  the  disease  crept  from 
him  through  the  whole  country.1  This  was  succeeded  by  the  danc- 
cing  mania,  which  came  simultaneously  with  the  black  death,  which 
spread  not  only  over  Ireland,  but  over  Europe,  in  1370,  and  counted 
its  victims  by  hecatombs  of  the  slain.  Sir  William  Wilde  divides 
into  five  periods  the  great  pestilences  that  visited  Ireland,  and  a 
great  portion  of  Europe,  previously  to  the  sixteenth  century. 

It  is  not  our  purpose,  however,  to  go  further  through  these 
details,  or  bring  the  reader  with  us  over  those  dismal  fields  on 
which  Death  played  so  frightful  a  part,  as  to  leave  his  mark  in  our 
annals  in  a  form  calculated  to  affright  the  bravest,  to  appal  all  with 
his  horrors,  or  to  show  that  there  is  nothing  new  in  the  epidemics, 
famines,  tempests,  &c.,  of  latter  years.  Our  purpose  and  object  in 
this  paper  are  of  a  different  nature  altogether.  We  wish  to  show 
the  nature,  and  extent,  and  progress,  as  well  as  the  actual  daily 
practice,  of  a  first-class  Irish  medical  man  in  the  seventeenth 
century ;  and,  whilst  we  do  so,  to  bring  on  the  stage,  through  his 
own  diary,  the  names  of  his  patients,  not  a  few  of  whom  figured  in 
contemporaneous  history,  and  nearly  all  of  whom  were  persons  of 
rank,  some  of  whose  descendants  continue  to  this  day  to  hold  their 
places  among  the  gentry  and  nobility  of  the  land.  The  eminent 
physician  to  whom  we  refer  is  Dr.  Thomas  Arthur,  to  whose  ma- 
nuscripts we  have  taken  occasion  to  refer  in  previous  numbers  of 
the  "  Journal"  of  this  Society,  and  on  whose  Fee-Book,  which  con- 
stitutes a  large  share  of  his  manuscripts,  we  must  draw  to  a  consi- 
derable extent  in  the  course  of  our  inquiry. 

This  Dr.  Thomas  Arthur  was  a  member  of  a  most  ancient,  emi- 
nent, and  once  flourishing  Limerick  family  of  that  name,2  whose  an- 
cestor, according  to  the  Arthur  MSS.,  arrived  in  Ireland  just  before 
King  Henry  II.,  A.  D.  1 171,  and  on  whom  Royalty  conferred  large 
possessions  in  1178  in  Emly,  where  he  built  ".marble"  houses, 
which  he  strengthened,  according  to  the  fashion  of  the  time,  with 
trenches,  ditches,  &c.,  and  he  also  furthermore  surrounded  himself 
with  strong  men  as  servants.  He  was  a  great  hunter,  subjecting 
"  the  swift-footed  deer,"  the  "  flying  hare,"  and  every  other  animal 
of  the  chase  to  his  sway ;  and  indulging,  moreover,  in  the  pastime 
of  fowling,  as  it  was  followed  in  that  far  distant  age.  He  died 
about  A.  D.  1204,  at  the  venerable  age  of  76  years,  and  was  suc- 

1  Grace's  "  Annals."  members   of  the  Arthur  family  as   bi- 

2  See  Lenihan's    "History    of  Lime-      shops,    mayors,    bailiffs,    sheriffs,  mer- 
rick"  for  full  particulars  of  numerous      chants,  &c.,  &c. 

D 


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ceeded  by  John  Arthur,  who  pursued  the  same  course  as  his  sire ; 
and  who,  dyincr  about  A.  D.  1246,  at  the  green  old  age  of  72  years, 
was  succeeded  by  Nicholas  Arthur,  who  died  about  A.  D.  1274, 
aged  74  years.  Next  came  another  John,  who,  in  addition  to  the 
rural  occupations  which  his  predecessors  had  followed,  was  the 
founder  of  his  family  in  the  City  of  Limerick,  where  he  had  large 
property,  and  filled  the  office  of  Mayor  about  A.  D.  1274,  in  the 
reicrn  of  the  first  Edward,  King  of  England.  We  shall  not  dwell 
further  on  the  achievements  of  Dr.  Thomas  Arthur's  ancestors, 
than  to  state  that  for  a  period  of  five  or  six  hundred  years  they 
occasionally  filled  the  highest  positions  in  the  Church,  and  in  the 
Corporation  of  Limerick.  To  the  Church  they  were  munificent 
benefactors ;  and  to  the  Corporation  they  gave  an  eclat  by  the  splen- 
dour of  their  riches,  and  the  admirable  manner  in  which  the  deeds 
of  some  of  the  family  were  recognized  and  rewarded  by  the  Kings 
of  England.  The  Arthurs,  we  need  not  add,  were  Roman  Catho- 
lics ;  and  in  reference  to  the  professions  of  physic  and  surgery,  it 
may  be  added  as  a  curious,  yet  significant  fact,  that  as  the  study  of 
those  branches  of  science  was  not  prohibited  by  the  Penal  Laws  of 
later  times,  Catholics  stood  in  the  foremost  rank  and  first  place, 
particularly  in  Limerick,  as  physicians  and  surgeons  longer  than 
the  memory  of  man  goeth.  In  the  century  after  Dr.  Thomas 
Arthur  flourished,  there  were  Stephen  O'Halloran,  above  referred 
to,  who  wrote  an  able  treatise  on  the  advancement  of  surgery,  or  a 
•'  Complete  Treatise  on  Gangrene  and  Sphacelus  with  a  new  Method 
of  Amputation  "(Limerick,  A.  Welsh,  MDCCLXV.),  and  who  was 
an  admirable  practitioner  as  well  as  a  learned  historian.  Dr.  Martin 
was  a  clever  physician,  also  of  the  same  persuasion,  as  was  Dr. 
Mac  Knight  ;  these  were  succeeded  by  Dr.  O'Kiordan,  who  in 
turn  was  succeeded  by  Dr.  Carroll.  These  gentlemen  were  visited 
by  patients  from  all  parts  of  North  Munster,  and  had  practice  as 
extensive  as  the  Queen's  physician,  and  others  of  equal  celebrity 
now-a-days.  Thus  the  Penal  Laws,  which  closed  the  bar,  the  army, 
the  navy,  the  law,  &c.  &c.,  against  Roman  Catholics,  permitted  them 
to  follow  a  pursuit  in  which  many  men  of  that  religious  persuasion 
became  exceedingly  famous  at  home  and  abroad.  Indeed,  abroad, 
many  Irish  physicians  held  first  rank.  O'Higgin  was  king's  physi- 
cian in  Spam,  in  the  time  of  Charles  V.;  Quinlan,  a  Carrick-on- 
buir  man,  was  physician  to  the  Emperor  of  Russia,  under  whom  he 
realized  a  fortune;  whilst  Dr.  Thomas  Hearn,  of  Waterford,  was 
physician  to  Godov,  "the  Prince  of  Peace,"  and  threw  up  his  em- 
ployment rather  than  perpetrate  a  crime  to  which  he  had  been  in- 
ed,  it  is  said,  by  his  employer.  Dr.  Arthur's  religion  might  have 
od  in  the  way  of  his  advancement  were  it  not  for  his  having 
I  1  •££?£  ^1c1hbish°P  Usher  of  a  dangerous  disease, 
which  had  baffled  the  skill  of  the  ablest  English  physicians,  as  he 


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Dr  Thomas  Arthur  was  born  on  the  eve  of  St.  Catherine  the 
Martyr,  A.  D.  1593  ;x  and  he  commenced  to  practise  whilst  James 
I.  of  England  was  on  the  throne — viz.,  in  1619.  But  we  shall 
allow  him  to  tell  one  of  his  own  stories  in  his  own  words : — 

DR.  ARTHUR'S  PROFESSIONAL  HISTORY, 
Translated  from  the  Latin  hexameters  in  the  Arthur  MS.,  p.  245-6. 

"  Who  when  a  beardless  boy  dwelt  in  learned  Bourdeaux, 

The  Augustinian  camp  of  the  Thespian  goddesses, 
Here  it  pleased  him  to  devote  his  green  youth's  study  to  rhetoric 

And  the  learned  institutes  of  the  wise. 
Here  he  inaugurated  the  first  hours  of  tender  youth, 

The  laurel  wreaths  of  wisdom  graced  his  locks  : 
To  Paris  soon  he  sedulously  proceeded,  and  there 

With  eager  ears  had  heard  the  leading  physicians, 
And  with  rapid  pen  had  committed  to  writing 

The  sacred  and  previously  studied  lectures  of  the  learned. 
There  he  had  mentally  imbibed  the  oracles  of  Apollo's  shrine, 

The  wan  Hippocrates'  difficult  precepts, 
There,  too,  O  Galen,  he  perused  several  large  volumes  of  thy 

Sound  medical  learning. 
There,  too,  he  looked  through  the  inner  mansions  of  chemical  science, 

If  he  might  thence  derive  any  aid  for  the  sick. 
Soon  after  distinguished  at  Rheims  with  the  honour  of  the  doctorate ; 

Welcome  and  exulting  he  returned  to  the  house  of  his  fathers ; 
There,  under  happy  auspices,  he  energetically  cultivated  to  perfection 

The  Paeonian  arts,  which  he  learned  when  a  youth. 
At  the  suggestion  of  the  Viceroy  of  the  kingdom  and  the  aristocracy 

He  removed  from  his  native  city  and  went  to  Dublin 
And,  acceptable  to  the  worthy  native,  the  new  inhabitant, 

Arrived  there,  and  was  received  rejoicing  by  all. 
It  was  then  apparent  what  he  was,  so  many  certificates 

Of  his  eminent  learning  being  noticed  made  him  known. 
The  magistrates  and  lords  and  courtiers  of  the  chief 

Tetrarchs,  knights,  and  squires  and  generals 
Called  for  him  to  expel  diseases  by  his  fragrant  panacea 

and  ambrosial  juices. 
Nor  was  he  known,  and  gave  the  powerful  aid  of  his  famous  skill  to  the 

neighbouring  peoples  only, 
But  his  fame  flew  through  the  remotest  borders  of  the  kingdom, 

And  on  being  sent  for  he  often  performed  a  long  journey." 

The  result  of  this  unprecedented  success  on  the  part  of  an 
Irish  physician  in  those  days  was,  that  not  only  did  Dr.  Arthur 
enjoy  great  practice,  but  he  possessed  wonderful  influence,  as  well 
with  the  highest  in  the  state  as  among  his  own  countrymen  and 

1  Arthur    MSS.,    Genealogical  Idyll,       quatrain  that  he  was  born  in  1593,  on 
where  Dr.  Arthur  states  in  a  poetical       the  vigil  of  St.  Catherine  the  Martyr. 


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co-reli<rionists;  and  his  fees  were  of  sufficient  magnitude  to  en- 
able him  to  realize  a  large  fortune,  to  purchase  broad  acres,  and 
to  lend  considerable  suras  of  money  to  noblemen  and  gentlemen, 
particularly  to  theThomond  family,  and  to  some  of  the  then  old  Irish 
gentry,  who  appear  to  have  stood  in  need  of  his  advances.  As  to 
the  nature  of  the  aromatic  balsams  and  healing  juices,  with  which  he 
wrought  such  extraordinary  cures  as  to  have  won  for  him  universal 
fame,  he  has  left  no  record.  This  is  the  more  to  be  regretted,  as 
the  contemporaneous  medical  books  afford  but  a  slender  notion  of 
the  description  of  medicine  which  physicians  prescribed  for  their 
patients.  The  "Regiment  of  Health"  (London,  1634)  gives  many 
valuable  hints  as  to  the  preservation  of  life,  but  only  in  the  way  of 
food,  &c.  There  are  no  regular  prescriptions  such  as  those  with  which 
we  may  suppose  Dr.  Arthur  was  familiar.  We  shall  now  proceed  to 
give  some  translations  from  his  Fee-Book  merely  as  specimens ; 
but  as  it  is  thought  better  that  the  original  should  be  given  in  ex- 
tenso,  as  it  is  written  in  a  learned  language,  and  in  many  places 
does  not  bear  translation,  we  shall  give  transcripts  therefrom  in 
detail,  and  illustrate  the  matter  as  far  as  we  can  with  notes. 

Dr.  Thomas  Arthur  (Fitz-William),  before  commencing  his 
Medical  Diary  or  Fee-Book,  has  a  list  of  "  salaria  seu  denaria," 
which  he  received  after  he  had  been  admitted  to  the  roll  of  the 
Masters  of  the  Medical  Faculty  in  Paris,  and  into  the  Society  of 
the  "  most  constant  German  nation,"  which  appears  to  have  been 
the  collegiate  order  to  which  he  attached  himself.  He  states  that 
he  found  no  difficulty  in  being  placed  upon  the  "  album"  of  that 
very  celebrated  faculty,  as  it  appeared  he  had  been  previously 
honoured  with  a  Master's  degree  in  his  alma  mater,  the  University 
of  Bordeaux.  The  "  salaria  or  denaria"  appear  to  have  been  some- 
thing like  what  we  should  call  "  exhibitions,"  or  pecuniary  emolu- 
ments, or  gratuities  ;  and  his  admission  resembles  our  "  ad  eundem" 
degrees.  Among  the  "  salaria,"  &c.,  of  which  he  records  a  great 
number,  occur  such  entries  as  the  following; — 

"In  conyentu  habito  p  sufficiendo  nuncio  episcopatui  Tua- 

mensi,  in  regno  Hibernise, ...  00   16     0 

"  Cum  interfuissc  Missae  St.  Martini, [  00  10     0 

*'  Et  Missae  pro  ania  Mrae.  Stuart, [  00     8     0 

"  CQ  interfuisse  Electionis  Rectorise,      ......  00  16     0 

Translation:—"  In  the  meeting  held  for  appointing  a ''Nuncius' 

..  Ju      r  ,    j ™Pnck  of  Tuam>  in  ^e  Kingdom  of  Ireland,     .  0  16     0 

When  I  had  been  present  at  the  Mass  of  St.  Martin,  010     0 

'And  at  the  Mass  for  the  soul  of  Mary  Stuart,    ...  080 

"  When  I  had  been  present  at  the  Election  of  Rector,   "...  0160 

It  would  appear  from  a  list,  or  «  Cathologue  of  Dr.  Thomas 


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Arthur,  his  bookes,"  that  the  following  were  among  the  authors  he 
studied,  viz.: — Galen  and  Hippocrates  and  their  commentators; 
the  Anatomical  Works  of  Andrew  Laurentius ;  the  Works  of  John 
Fernelius  ;  the  Institutions  of  Leonard  Fuschius  ;  the  Works  and 
Medical  Canons  of  Frombesarius  ;  the  Practical  Works  of  Savona- 
rola, with  a  large  number  of  others  on  chemistry,  pharmacy,  surgery, 
&c.,  &c.  In  the  list  I  find  the  "  Pathologia  Hereditaria"  in  16°  of 
Dermitius  O'Meara,  a  physician  of  very  great  eminence,  at  the 
period  he  wrote,  in  Ireland,  and  of  whose  writings,  &c.,  mention  is 
made  by  Ware.  I  have  a  copy  of  this  treatise.  O'Meara  was  a 
native  of  the  County  of  Tipperary,  as  we  have  already  stated. 

Translations  of  specimens  of  a  few  of  the  most  remarkable  cases 
are  here  given.  In  every  instance  the  names  of  patients  are  men- 
tioned by  him : — 

The  first  entries  in  Dr.  Arthur's  diary  bear  date  the  20th  £    s.    d. 
of  May,  1619,  and  name  of  Charles  Bourke,  who  gave  him 

the  "  honorarium"  of 200 

"  Anastasia  Ronan,  "Widow, 068 

*'  Walter  Merony,        080 

Various  entries  occur  of  well-known  Limerick  names,  such  as 
Stretch,  White,  Arthur,  Roche,  Creagh,  Hartegan,  Harrold, 
Sexton,  &c.,  besides  the  frequent  names  of  O'Dwyer,  Elliot,  Corny, 
or  Croft,  Loftus,  Leyelles,  O'Dwynin,  Hannan,  Leinch,  &c.,  &c. 
The  Greek  word  articvoc  (childless)  occurs  after  some  individuals 
of  the  names  of  Fanning  and  Creagh. 

The  following  entry  occurs  at  the  date  6th  November,  1619  : — 

"  I  departed  from  Limerick  to  Dut}Jin  in  the  suite  (comitatu) 
of  Lord  Donat  O'Brien,  Earl  of  Thomond,  President  of 

t  Munster,  where,  after  staying  for  nine  days,  Sir  George 

Sexton,  knight,  gave  me  on  the  8th  November  ....  400 

The  names  of  Greatreaks  and  Houragane,  Cromwell  and 
Baggott,  also  occur,  and  the  last  entry  of  the  year,  dated  24th 
March,  1619,  is:  — 

"  O'Donoghow  de  Glenfleisk, 0150 

who,  no  doubt,  was  the  O'Donoghoe  of  that  day. 

The  Doctor  concludes  the  year  as  follows  (in  Latin): — 

Anno  Dni,  1620. —  "The  amount  of  my  fees  for  this  year  past  is 
£74  Is.  Sd.t  for  which  and  for  other  gifts  conferred  upon  me,  unworthy, 
I  return  boundless  thanks  to  the  Almighty  God,  who  has  thus  deigned  to 
bless  the  beginning  of  my  medical  practice;  and  I  beg  of  him  to  vouchsafe 
to  direct,  govern,  and  sanctify  the  rest  of  my  actions,  to  the  praise  and 
glory  of  his  name,  through  Christ  our  Lord.  Amen." 


Anno  Dni,   1620.—  "  I  went  to  Dublin  on  the  3rd  of  May, 
to  Mr.  George  Sexton  (gonorrhoea  laborantem),  who  being 
thoroughly  cured,  gave  me  a  horse  of  the  value  of  £8,     £     s.     d. 
and  £5  in  gold,     ..............     1390 

•'  I  then  went  to  the  Lady  of  Arthur  Chichester,  the  Quaestor 
or  Treasurer  of  this  Kingdom,  then  living  at  Carrickfergus, 
in  Ulster,  whom,  when  labouring  under  dropsy,  and  fore- 
warning her  of  her  death  within  a  few  days  after  my  prog- 
nosis, I  attended  upon:  he  gave  me  on  the  25th  of  May  5  10  0 

44  Being  sent  foron  the  3rd  of  May,  I  went  to  Margaret  "Walsh, 
the  daughter  of  Cormack  O'Hara,  who  was  pregnant,  and 
became  convalescent  without  injury  to  herself  or  her  child,  100 

44  Sir  Randal  M'Saurley,  then  Viscount  of  Dunluce,  sent  for 

me  to  Dunluce,  and  gave  me       .........       100 

After  returning  to  Limerick  he  treated  Richard  Gahvey  for  a 
liver  complaint,  for  which  he  received  £l  Os.  Qd. 

"  19th  of  June,  Charles  O'Mulryan,  a  student  (studiosus),     .  0  10     0 

44  15th  of  August,  one  of  the  servants  of  Judge  Sarsfield,      .  0  10     0 
"28th  of  August,  Maurice  Fitzthomas  Fitzgerald,  living  at 

Cahirass.     [See  note  *,  p.  28,  iw/ra],      .......  100 

"  Lieutenant  John  Fitzgerald,  of  Diesthagh,  10th  October,    .  100 

"  Ensign  (Signifer)  Croker  of  Lismore,       .......  0  11     0 

The  names  of  O'Neon,  O'Nihil,  M'Connor,  and  McDonnell, 
occur  this  year,  during  which  the  Doctor  received  £75  18s.  Qd. 
fees,  and  ends  the  year  with  the  usual  thanksgiving. 

u  Thady  O'Dereleo  passed  a  worm  30  feet  long  in  consequence 

of  taking  an  emetic  of  antimony,  3rd  November,  1621,  100 

"  Patrick  O'Nihil,  fuller,  13th  November,     ....  050 

"  18th  November,  Dermod  O'Donnell;      ....'*.  100 

44  O'Donoghow,  of  Glenfleisk,      .....     .  300 

"  Daniel  M'Carthy,  surnained  'the  bald,'  gave  'me  a  horse  of 

the  value  of  40s.  on  the  2nd  of  December,      .  200 

"  Patrick  Sheogh  [query  Shea],  for  his  wife,     .     .  050 

44  Amount  of  fees  for  this  year,  ........  46  10     6^ 

Dr.  Arthur's  diary  stretches  over  a  period  of  time  commencing 
19,  and  ending  in  1663  :  it  begins  as  follows  :— 

Jhesus  »J-  Maria  Ano  Dni,  1619. 
Sancti  D  Amen6  *****  %  individuae  T™it»tis,  Patris  et  Filii  et  Spiritus 


him    n   h  ,    7  °vayJ  ln  afi°  D5i  1619'     Since  then  God 


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"  Hie  sequitur  vera  et  Integra  series  omnium  Sestercioru  quae  ab  segris 
ab  usquam  accepi  ex  quo  medicinam  facere  incepi ;  pro  quibus  habeo  Deo 
largitori  gratias." 

Translation  : — Here  follows  a  true  and  entire  list  of  all  the  sums  I 
ever  received  from  patients  from  the  time  I  began  to  practice  medicine ; 
for  which  I  feel  thankful  to  the  bountiful  God. 

Of  this  list  of  fees  we  now  proceed  to  give  a  full  transcript  from 
the  original  MS.,  leaving  Dr.  Arthur's  contracted  Latin,  for  obvious 
reasons,  untranslated  : — 

"  Charolus  Bourk,  a  gonorrhaea  simplici  liberatus  dedit  mihi      £     s.     d. 

pro  honorario  20°  May,  1619, 02     0     0 

"  Anastatia  Ronane,  vidua  ab  orthopnea  liberata,  ....  00  6  8 
"  Gualterus  Merony,  a  synocha  putri  euadens  Maij  22°,  .  00  8  0 
"  Petrus  Stackpoll,  t  films  ab  intemperie  calida  hepatis  t 

obstructionibus  liberati  23°  Maij, 00     6     0 

"  Nicholaus  Cromwell,  a  pleuritide  liber'  24°  Maij,     ...     00     5     0 
"  Gerraldus  Arthurius,  a  bradipepsia  liber'  25°  Maij,       .     .     00     5     0 
"  Anna    Gould,   quinquagenaria,  et  nouemdecim   annorum 
spatio  secundo  marito  cohabitans  t  sterilis,  tandem  conce- 
pit  filiam,  qua  ex  euidentibus  conceptionis  signis  ei  pras- 
dixi,  cu  nonnulli  medici  seniores,    quibus    maiore    fide 
adhibuit,    earn   ut  aschytica   hydragogis  pharmacis    me 
refragante   interemerunt  peracto   8°.    gestationis   mense, 
ex  huius  de  mortuae  vtero  dissecto  pro  assertione  sententiae 
mes3    extinctam    puellam    omnibus^  numeris  absolutam 
eduxi,  vnde  n5  minima  laudem  consequtus  sum,  26°  Maij,      01  00     0 
"  Jacobus  Do wley,  a  diarrhea  euadens  29°  Maij,     .     .     .     .     00  10     0 
"  Edwardus  Georgij  Ryce  a  dyssenteria  liber'  30°  Maij,        .     00     5     0 
"  Dauid  Hourugaine  a  calida  hepatis  discrasia  liber'  2°  Junij,       00     5     0 
"Joanna  Whyte  pro  filio  restaurando  quern  calidior  hepatis 
discrasia  in  hectica  pene  marasmodem  deduxit,  5°  Junij 

1619, 02   10     0 

"  Edmundus  Hartegane  a  maxille  abcessu  difficile  in  quo  os 

carie  contraxit  liberat?  7°  Junij, 01   00     0 

"  Nicholaus  Fanning  areKvos  9°  Junij, 00   10     0 

"  Thomas  Patricij  Creagh  suffusione  occsecatus  11°  Junij,  .  00  10  0 
"  Georgi9  Bartholomaei  Stretch  a  febre  synocha  liber'  14° 

Junij, 00     5     0 

"  Catherina  Thadsei  Ronarie  a  cardialgia  stomachica,  quam 

retorrida  bilis  induxit,  liberata  19°  Julij, 00   10     0 

"  Dominicus  Vincentij  Creagh  a  palpitatione  cordis  liber' 

20°  Junij, 00     6     0 

"  Guilielimus  Jacobi  Creagh  p  uxore  hysthirica  hydrope 

liberata  25°  Junij, 00     5     0 

u  Robertus Cromwell  |>  uxore  chephalalgia  liberata  28°  Junij,  0005  0 
"  Juvencula  quae  ruri  deget,  ex  mensiu  metastasiin  scyrhum 

hepatis  incidit,  curata  1°  Julij  1619, 01   00     0 

"  Thomas   Jacobi  Whyte  p  uxore  Anna  hysterica   curata 

4°Ju.,  00  10     0 


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^  - 

-     •  00     5  0 

-GeorgiusJacubiCreaghaT6^oSll0Julij        .     -     •     •     •  ^0  0 

«  Rieard?  Georgij  Arthurius  p  uxore  febricitante  13  Juhj,  .  00  10 

•<MatronaFulerthonalienterialiberatal6°Juhj,       ...  00     5 

CatherinaRonanep  dicta  20°  Julij,    .     .     ......  00 

4  Mauritius  Geraldi  Elligott  p  filio  24°  Juhj,    .....  00     6 

•  Manwaring  minister  pro  filio  25°  Julij,      ......  00  10 

»  Guilielimus  Comyn  pro  uxore  28°  Julij  .......  0100 

'  Thomas  Hannane  31°  Julij,      •••••;•     '.    '     '  00   10  0 

•  Thomas  Whyte  pdictus  p  filio  Francisco  1°  Augusti,  .     . 

•  GualteruB  Harrold  4°  Augusti,    ......... 

'  Guilielimus  Leinch  p  tilio  Jacobo  6°  Augusti,     ....  00 

•  Ellis  Bourk  vidua  7°  Augusti,      ......... 

•  Oliuerus  Browne  10°  Augusti,     .........  00  10 

4  Anglica  mulier  degens  in  gedibus  Colmani  14°  August,     .  00   10 

'Jacobus  Whyte  magnus  p  uxore  16°  Augusti,         ...  01   00  0 

'Mathteus  O'Moynichaine  18°  Augusti,  .......  00     5  0 

<  Christopherus  Whyte  pro  filio  Thoma  19°  Augusti,     .     .  00     6  0 

4  Edmundus  Donaldi  pro  filio  21°  Augusti,  ......  00     5  0 

1  Molouna  de  Ballibruochaine  23°  Augusti,  ......  00  15  0 

4  Quidam  de  Keinrye1  opthalmia  curatus  25°  Augusti,   ..0160 

1  Richardus  Dominici  Creagh  pro  filio  27°  Augusti,   ...  00     8  0 

4  Nicholaus  Fox  pro  filio  1°  Septembris,  .......  00     8  0 

4  Jacobus  Cassey  pro  uxore  1°  Sepris,  ........  01  00  0 

4  Galfridus  Stretch  pro  uxore  3°  Septembris,    .....  00   10  0 

•  Xicholaus  Bartholomaei  Stretch  p  uxore  5°  Septemb.,   .     .  00   10  0 
4  Georgius  Bartholomaei  Stretch  pleuritide  liberat'  6°  S.,     .  00     8  0 
'  Edward?  Euerard  p  uxore  7°  Septembris,  ......  00     6  0 

4  Edmundus  Long  p  uxore  9°  Septembris,    ......  00     6  0 

'  Nicholas  Bartholomasi  Stretch  p  fratre  11°  Septembris,     .  00     5  0 

'  Dominicus  Jacobi  Whyte  pro  uxore  12°  Semptembris,      .  00  10  0 

'Ellinora  Whyte  vidua  p  filio  Nicholao  13°  Septemb.,   .     .  00     5  0 

'Georgius  Bently  a  pleuritide  liberatus  15°  Septembris,     .  00   10  0 

•Georgius  lloch  fort  Jacobi  p  uxore  17°  Septembris,        .     .  00  10  0 

'  Lucas  Stretch  p  se  destillationibus  obnoxio  19°  Septembris,  00   10  0 

lJaspar2  Whyte  lienteria  correptus  24°  Septemb.,      ...  00  10  0 

k  Jacobus  Edmundi  Fox  p  uxore  25°  Septembris,  ....  00  10  0 

1  Stephanus  Arthurius  p  uxore  Maria  27°  Septemb.  .     .     .  00  10  0 

'  Vidua  Bonefield3  pro  filio  28°  Septembris,  ......  00     5  0 

'Stephanus  Jacobi  Whyte  p  uxore  30°  Septemb  .....  00     6  0 

•  Johanes  Johaiiis  Croft  2°  Octobris,    ........  00     5  0 

«  Johanes  Sexten  p  uxore  Ellina  4°  Octobris,     .....  00     6  0 

'  Anastatia  Loftus  vidua  7°  Octobris,       .......  00     5  0 


tu.     thecounty  Limerick.  of  ancient  Irish  fashion  placed  by  his 

This  Christian  name  constantly  re-  brother  officers  to  the  late  young  Cor- 

in  the    old    and  respectable  fa-  net,   Jasper  White,   Esq.,    of  the  4th 

mily  of  Whyte,  of  Limerick,  of  whom  Roval  Irish  Dragoons,  in  Castleconnell 

several  representatives   flourish  to  this  Catholic  churchyard. 
day.    There  is  a  very  handsome  cross          '  Bonefield's  lane  formerlv  existed  in 


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£  s.  d. 

"  Dominicus  Meagh  qui  turgebat  lien  9°  Octobris,      ...  00  8  0 

"Nicholaus  Bartholomsei  Stretch  pro  uxore  11°  Octobris,  .  00  10  0 

"Richardus  Ley llus  p  uxore,  13°  Octobris, 00  6  0 

"  Kogerus  Ryce  febrici tans,  14°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Yong  pro  vxore,  15°  Octobris, 00  5  0 

"Andreas  Gulielmi  Arthurius  16°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Catherina  Walters  vidua  17°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"Edmundus  O'Dwynine1  18°  Octobris, 00  8  0 

"  Patricius  Rochfort  p  filia  cui  furunculus  in  brachi  ortus 

vita  pene  ademit  &  suma  cu  difficultate  evasit  19°  Octr.,  01  00  0 

"Johannes  Woulf  pro  uxore  21°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Gualterus  Why te  pro  uxore  23°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Edmundus  Skeolan  scotomia  liberatus  24°  Octobris,     .     .  00  10  0 
"  Thomas  England  pro  uxore  in  elephantiasim  ^clivis  26° 

Octob., 00  10  0 

"  Jacobus  Midchel  pro  uxore  28°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Gual terms  Roch   in   melancholia   hypocundriaca   degens 

29°  Oct., 00  8  0 

*'  Richardus  Georgi9  Arthuro  p  uxore  30°  Octobris,  ...  00  5  0 

"  Edwardus  Johannis  Stretch  pro  uxore  2°  Novembris,        .  00  6  0 

"  Georgius  Rochfort  pro  uxore  3°  Novembris, 00  5  0 

"  Quidam  piscator  cauphso  correptus  4°  Novembris,   ...  00  5  0 
"  Discessi  Limjico  Dublinium  6°  Novembri  sin  comitatu  D. 

Donati  O'Bryen  Thuomonise  Comitis2  Momonise  Prsesidis 

ubi  comoratus  per  nove  dies. 

"  D.  Gorgius  Sexten3  eques  auratus  dedit  mihi  18° Novembris,  04  00  0 
"  Guilielimus  Greatrikes4,  cuius  abdomen  per  viginti  annos 

quotidie  a  flatu  hypochundriaco  ita  distendebatur  ut  per 

una  horam  immobilis  sensus^bvocis  expers  remanerit,  ubi- 

the  English  town  of  Limerick  ;  it  is  not  nument  was  raised  to  perpetuate  his 
mentioned  now-a-days.  Among  the  Ro-  memory — See  Lenihan's  History  of  Li- 
man  Catholic  physicians  who  flourished  merick.  This  monument  having  been 
in  Limerick  about  seventy  years  ago,  defaced  in  the  time  of  the  Great  Re- 
the  name  of  Dr.  Thomas  Bonefield,  or  bellion,  was  rebuilt  by  Henry,  seventh 
Bonfield,  as  I  believe  he  wrote  it,  de-  Earl  of  Thomond,  in  1678.  Donagh 
serves  to  be  mentioned.  He  bequeathed  O'Brien  was  a  great  favorite  with  Queen 
a  large  sum  of  money  to  aid  in  building  Elizabeth  and  King  James  I.,  who 
the  Roman  Catholic  College  of  Park,  heaped  honours  upon  him  t:  above  the 
near  Limerick.  Dr.  Martin,  whose  nobility  of  the  time."  He  was  accus- 
name  appears  in  the  introductory  mat-  tomedto  attend  in  great  state  the  Par- 
ter,  was  a  relative  of  his.  Dr.  Bonefield  liament  and  Privy  Council ;  and  the 
was  a  relative  of  Mr.  Marcus  O'Shaugh-  Queen  in  35th  year  of  her  reign,  on  his 
nessy,  of  Limerick,  and  his  remains  were  petition,  granted  him  a  longer  estate  in 
interred  in  St.  Mary's  Cathedral  ceme-  the  manor  of  Ardmolgan,  and  60  acres 
tery.  of  land  in  Harreston  Barretts,  in  the 

1  This  name  appears  to  be  the   old  county  Meath,  that  he  might  build  a  con- 
Thomond  or  Clare  name  of  O'Dinan.  venient  house  for  his  residence  when  he 

2  Donagh    O'Brien,    fourth   Earl   of  should  have  occasion  to  attend  Parlia- 
Thomond,     Baron     of   Ibreacan,    and  ment,  or  the  Council  in  Dublin. 
President    of   Munster,    died    on   the  s  Ancestor  to  the  Earl   of  Limerick, 
4th  of  September,  1624,  about  five  years  and  from  whom  the  great  portion  of  the 
after  the  period  above  mentioned.   He  Limerick  estates  have  descended  to  the 
was    interred  among  his   ancestors  in  present  possessor. 

Limerick  Cathedral,  where  a  noble  mo-         *  Mr.   Greatreakes  was   a   native  of 

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»  Ro^erus  Dalthon  de  Knockmee  prope  Dungaruan  phrseni- 
tid°ecorreptus  26°  Decembris  pro  impensarnea  opera  erga 

ipsu  etsi  incassum  habui  equm  valoris  £5  %  20..,   .     .     -     Ob 
-  Joannes  Fit*  Gerald  eques  Auratus  de  Deaish,'  acha  [i          ^  ^     ^ 

«  J^nnes^Uncaste^Te  Pffltowne  ppe  Yeochall  hypocun- 
driacus   et  contumacibus  viscerum   obstructiombus   dm 

multumq>  vexatus  30"  Decembris,    .     .     ......  01      2 

•« Guilielimus  Greatrikes  prcedictus  31°  Decembris           .     .  03  00     0 

•<  Robertas  Koch  iunior  pro  uxore  4°  Januarij  1619,  .     .     .  00   10     0 

»  Thomas  Richardi  Whyte  pro  filio  8°  Januarij      .     .     .     .  00     b 

« Arthur  viduaPatricii  England  11°  January,      .     .     .     .  .00     6     U 

"Rikardus  Bourke  de  Killinane  bradipsupheticus  15°  Jamj., 

«  Guilielimus  Stone  causidicus  aut  procurator  19°  Jamj.,     .  01  00     0 

Anglus  quidam  peregrinus  24°  Januarij, nn.no 

Jacobus  ffox  pro  uxore  29°  Januarij,     .......  00   10     0 

Nicholaus  Stretch  iunior  pro  filia  2°  februarij  1619,     .     .  00   10     U 

Guilielimus  Gradey  pro  filia  6°  februarij, 

Leonard  Jacobi  Creagh  pro  uxore  7°  februarij     ....  00  10 

"  Ellina  Harrold  vidua  p  filio  Johanne  Stretch  9°  febru.,     .  00     b     U 

"Johannes  Browne  mercator  12°  februarij  1619,   ....  D     5     0 

"Georgius  Jacobi  Creagh  prsedictus  14°  februarij,      .     .     .  00  10     0 
"  Jacobus  Gassy  pro  filio  Thoma  peripneumonise  obnoxio  26° 

februarij 01  00     0 

14  Robertus  Cromwell  p  Johanne  Arthurio  melancholias  ob- 
noxio 26°  februarij, 00  10     0 

"  Johannes  Morony  28°  februarij, 00     5 

"  Guilielimus  Ronane  4°  Martij  1619, 00  08     0 

Symon  ffaning  9°  Martij, 01  00     0 

Mauritius  Hourugaine  10°  Martij, 00     3     0 

Guilielimus  Greatreekes  praedictus  13°  Martij,     .     .     .     .  0300     0 

Ed  mundus  Baggott  22°  Martij 01130 

O'Donnoghow  de  Gleanfleisk  24°  Martij  1619,3  ....  00  15     0 

Derbyshire.     He  was  of  New  Affane,  cestor  to  the  Lord  Stuart  de  Decies, 

county  of  Waterford.     He  died  in  Dub-  and  illustrious  as  one  of  the  greatest  of 

lin,  June  2,  1628,  and  was  buried  in  St.  the  Geraldines.      See  this   "Journal," 

John's  Church.     His  funeral  certificate  second  Series,  vol.  iv.,  p.  334,  and  Lynche's 

U  in  Ulster's  Office    (Funeral  Entries,  "  Feudal  Dignities." 

vol.  v.,  page  137).    His  grandson  was  2  Youghal.     For  some  notice  of  John 

Valentine  Greatreakes,  "the  stroker."  Lancaster,  see  "Journal,  "second  Series, 

See  pedigree  of  the  Greatreaks  family  vol.  i.,  p.  21,  and  note. 

by  the  Rev.  Samuel  Hayman  in  "  The  3  This  was  the    O'Donoghoe  of  the 

Reliquary,"  vol.  iv.,  pp.  81-96 ;  220-236.  Glen  in  his  day— ancestor,  we  presume, 

i  Sir  John  FitzGerald  of  Decies,    an-  of  the  Hon.  Member  for  Tralee. 


27 

"Suma    honorarioru    huius    anni    transact! 

e s t    74';    1s-    8d-   pro    quibus    t    c  33 1  e  r  i  s 

donis   suis  in  me  indignu  collatis  im- 

mensas    omnipotent!    Deo    refero 

gratias     qui     initia     medicse     meae 

praxeos     sic     benedicere     dignatus 

est ;  ^b  supplico  ut  caeteras  actiones 

meas  ad  laudem  t  gloria  nomi- 

nis  Jui  dirigere  gubernare  & 

Sanctificare  dignetur:  per 

Xlum  Dnum  nrum.  Ame. 

Anno  Dni  1620. 

"  Vigesirna  sexta  die  Martij  profectus  sum  in  Kyerye  ubi  per  £  s.  d. 
dece  dies  peragratus  a  diuersis  asgris  obtinui,  ....  05  00  0 
"  Stephanus  Jacobi  Whyte  12°  Aprilis  Anno  Dni  1620,  .  00  10  0 
"  Joannes  Nangle  in  pthisim  pcliuis  14°  Aprilis  1620,  .  .  00  8  0 
"  Quida  de  Treough1  thuomonensis  15°  Aprilis,  ....  00  5  0 

"Gregorius  Bonefield  17°  Aprilis, 00     5     0 

"Petrus  Creagh  cognomine  Niger  p  filio  18°  Aprilis,        .     .     00  10     0 
"  Jacobus  Harrold  pro  uxore  20°  Aprilis,      .     .     .     .     .     .     00  10     0 

"  Eduardus  Georgii  Arthurius  pro  uxore  Catherina  21°  Apr.      00     8     0 

"  Jaspar  Woulf  hypochundriacus  23°  Aprilis, 00  10     0 

"  Patricius  Rochfort  pro  filio  25°  Aprilis, 00     8     0 

"  Vincentius  Creagh  pro  uxore  26°  Aprilis, 00  10     0 

"  Malachias  O'Mijghaine2  iunior  28°  Aprilis, 00  10     0 

"  Johannes  Roberti  O'Ryrdaine  pro  uxore  in  icteru  nigrii 

vergete  29°  Aprilis, 01  00     0 

"  Eobert  Woulfe  senior  pro  uxore  30°  Aprilis, 00  10     0 

"Guilielimus  Brickdale  pro  uxore  Vna  2°  Maij,     .     ...     00  10     0 

"Accersitus  Dublinium  3°  Maij  ad  Domina  Arthur!  Chi- 

chestri3  Quasstoris  seu  Thesaurarii  huius  regni  tune  de- 

gentis    apud   Carrigfargus   in  Vltonia,    qua    anascarcha 

laborante,  instituta  prognosci  de  eius  obitu,  eis  paucos  dies 

deserui,  25°  Maij  dedit  mihi, 05   10     0 

"  Inde  accersitus  25°  Maij  ad  Margareta  Walsh   uxorem 
Cormachi   O'Hara  pregnantem  t   ictero   suffusam   qu93 
sine  prolis  aut  foetus  noxa  convaluit  27°  Maij,     ....     01  00     0 
"  Sr.  Randal  Mc  Sawrley  tune  Vicecomes  de  Dunluce4  me 

inde  Dunlucia  accesiuit  28°  Maij  et  dedit  mini,  .     .     .     .     01  00     0 
"  Inde  reuersus  Lymjicu  perueni  17°  Junii  ubi  reperi  Ri- 
chardu  Galwey  calidiore  hepatis  intemperie  inhectica  ver- 
gente  et  dedit  mihi  18°  Junij, 01  00     0 

1  Trough  is  a  parish  in  the  present  3  Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  Treasurer  of 
county  of  Clare,  then  called  Thoraond,  Ireland,   A.  D.    1620,  ancestor  to   the 
within  a  few  miles  of  Limerick.    Gene-  Marquis  of  Donegal,  and  to  Viscount 
ral    Sir  Charles    Routlege   O'Donnell,  Templemore. 

M.  R.  I.  A.,  a  distinguished  cavalry  of-  4  Sir  Randal  M'Sorley  M'Donnell,  Vis- 

ficer,  traveller,  and  litterateur,  &c.,  Co-  count  of  Dunluce,  figured  largely  in  the 

lonel  of  the   18th   Hussars,  resides  at  doings  of  the  time;  and  particularly  in 

Trough  House,  which  is  castellated.  the  time  of  the  Great  Rebellion.     (See 

2  The  modern  spelling  is  Meehan.  Lenihan's  History  of  Limerick.) 


28 

£    «.     d. 

«  Robertus  Dominici  Creagh  24°  Juny,    .     .    .     •     •     •     •     01  00    0 
Bartholomew  Stretch  cahda  discrasia  hepatis  28 


-Robeitus'Wouif  prffidictus  contumaci  ictero  detent?  1°    Q1     Q    Q 

«£2L«iV^^  °°}°  ^ 

-  Thomas  Clanchey  9°  Julij,      •     •     -     •     •     '    :     '     '  no     ft     0 

-  Johannes  O'Hourugaine  mmor  5  uxore  12  July,     .     .     .  00     8     0 
"  Guilielimus  Davidis  M'Donell  15°  July,.   .     .     .  .    .     .     .  00     50 

"  Charolus  O'Mulrian'  studiosus  19°  July,  .     .     .     •     •     •  00  10     u 

"  Daniell  Arthurius  cognomento  iuvems  25°  July,      .     .     .  00     5     u 

"  Quidam  Thuomoniensis  atrabiliarius  30°  July,    ....  01  UU 

"  Quidam  Leynchy  textor  quam  deploratse  salutis  restitui 

"  Quidamfaber  lignarius  preter  spem  restitutus  10°  Augusti,  00  10  0 

"Quidam  Servus  Domini  Sarsfeeld  Judicis,2  15°  August!,   .  00  10  0 

"  Quidam  Anglus  senex  ruri  degens  19°  Augusti,  ....  00     5 

tk  Quidam  mercator  Corcagiensis  24°  Augusti,   .     .     .     .     .  00  10 

"Mauritius  Thorn®  Geraldinus  de  Cahirassa,3  28°  Augusti,  01  00 

"  David  Nihil  pro  filio  prater  omnem  spem  restitute,  1°  Sepr.,  01  00 

"Dominicus  BartholomteiWhytcatharrisobnoxius  6°  Sepr.,  0010  0 
"  David  Comin4  Senator  pro  filio  Nicholao  contumaci  dyar- 

rlueadia  uexato  rt  jam  restitute  11°  Septembris,  .     .     .     .  01  00  0 
41  David  Ronan  sutor  qui  copiose  atram  bilem  avomuit  15° 

Septembris,       .............  ^.     .  00  12  0 

"  Johanna  Thoma?  Arthur  post  secundas  nuptias  18°  Septris.,  00  10  0 

"  Stephanus  Edmundi  Whyte  24°  Septembris,  .....  00  10  0 

"  Patricius  Gassy  pro  filia  27°  Septembris,    ......  00  10  0 

41  Guilielimus  Greatreekes5  9°  Octobris,    .......  02     4  0 

"Sir  Johannes  Fitz  Gerald  De  Diessagh  10  Octobris,      .     .  01  00  0 

4  *  Signifer  Croker  de  Lismore  11°  Octobris,  ......  00  11  0 

"  Lewis  lictor  Praesidis  Momonise  19°  Octobris,      ....  03  00  0 

"  Mauritius  Roch  run  degens  22°  Octobris,  ......  00     8  0 

"  Mauritius  O'Molouna  26°  Octobris,  ........  00     8  0 

"  Downe  O'Nihill  31°  Octobris,      .........  00  10  0 

"  Vincentius  Creagh  pro  filio  4°  Novembris,      .....  00  10  0 

"  Gualterus  Arthurius  8°  Novembris,  ........  00  10  0 

i  The  OMulrians  are  now  the  Ryans.  herass  married  Elleanor,  5th  daughter 

The  Ryans'  country  is  in  the  Barony  of  of  John  Brown  of  Camus,  Esq.,  called 

Owney,  County  Limerick.  Master  of  Awney,  and  from  them  de- 

•  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield,  Viscount  Kil-  scended  all  the  FitzGeralds  of  that  fa- 

mallock,  &c.,  Premier  Baronet  of  Ire-  mily  since  their  time,  among  whom  their 

land,  &c.,   Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the  grand  -daughter    was    the    mother   of 

Common  Pleas.    ("See  Aaron  Crossly's  Theobald  Lord  Cahir  :  vid.  Pedigree  of 

Peerage,  pp.  101-102).  Brown  of  Awney  in  Lucas's  Collection. 

3  The  family  of  Fitz  Gerald  of  Ca-          4  David  Comin,  or  Comyn,  was  twice 

herass,  were  succeeded  in  that  place,  Mayor  of  Limerick  ;  he  was  deposed  in 

which  is  situated  in  the  immediate  neigh-  1612,   for  refusing  the  oath  of  Supre- 

bourhood  of  Croom,  County  of  Limerick,  macy,  and  not  going  to  Church.  He  was 

by  Evans,  first  Lord  Carbery.  Sir  David  re-elected  Mayor  in  1615,  when  he  suc- 

Vandeleur  Roche,  Bart.,  recently  married  ceeded  Simon  Faning,  who  was  deposed 

to  the  Hon.  Isabella  Susannah  Adelaide  for  the  sair.fi  cause. 
Massey,  2nd  daughter  of  Lord  Clarina,  *  There  was  a  branch  of  this  family 

now  resides  there.  FitzGerald  of  Ca-  settled  in  Limerick.     John  Greatrakes, 


29 

£    s.  d. 

"  Jasper  Woulfe  pro  uxore  1 1°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  O'Hourugaine  pdictus  pro  se  14°  Novemb.,  .     .  00     6  0 

"Guiliemus  0' Neon  pro  uxore  18°  Novembris,       .     .     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Stephani  Whyte  24°  Novembris, 00     5  0 

"  Gulielimiis  Meagh  mercator  pro  uxore,  27°  Nov.,      ...  00     5  0 

"Eduardus  Georgii  Arthurius  pro  se  30°  Novembris,      .     .  00     5  0 

"  Thadaeus  ruffus  sartor  pro  uxore  3°  Decembris,  ....  00     6  0 

"  Georgius  Patricii  Creagh  pro  filio  6°  Decembris,      .     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Edmundus  O'Neon  pro  se  9°  Decembris, 00     6  0 

"  Charolus  Bourke  pro  uxore  12°  Decembris,    .....  00  10  0 

"  Robertus  Woulf  pro  uxore  15°  Decembris, 00     8  0 

"  Guilielirnus  Greatreekes  prasdictus  18°  Decembris,  .     .     .  01  00  0 

"Edmundus  Harrold  pro  se  21°  Decembris, 00     6  0 

**  Nicholaus  Lyllies  pro  uxore  quse  23°  Decembris  appo- 
plexia  adorta  est,  quse  tandem  in  hemiphlegia  desinens 
inde  evasit  incolumis  no  sine  variis  artis  praesidiis  t 

maxima  industria, 01  00  0 

"  Thomas  mc  Connor  mcNemara  mercator  5°  Januarij,    .     .  00  10  0 

"  Nicholaus  Stretch  cognomento  juvenis  £  filia  9°  Januarij, .  00  10  0 

"  Andreas  Creagh  senior  15°  Januarij, .  01  00  0 

"  David  Nicholai  Corny n  pro  se  20°  Januarij, 00  10  0 

"  Robertus  Roch  cognomento  juvenis  pro  uxore  25°  Januarij,  00  1 4  0 

"Eduardus  Sexten  hydropicus  30°  Januarij, 01  QO  0 

"Nicholaus  Lyllies  £  uxore  praedicta  2°  februarij,      .     .     .  02     4  0 
"Stephanus  Arthurius  p  Daniele  ex  fratre  nepote  6°  fe- 
bruarij,    00     6  0 

"  Stephanus  Petri  Whyte  pro  uxore  9°  februarij,  ....  00  10  0 

'•Genetta  Leonardi  Creagh  11°  Februarij, 00     5  0 

"  Catherina  Longe  19°  Februarij, 00  10  0 

"  Nicholaus  Bartholomad  Stretch  £  uxore  25°  febr.,    .     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Richardus  Galwey  pro  se  1°  Martij, 00   10  0 

"  Georgius  Bartholomsei  Stretch  4°  Martij, 00     6  0 

"  Nicholaus  Lyllies  praedictus  p  uxore  predicta  15°Martii, .  01  00  0 

"  David  Comyn  pro  uxore  20°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Stephanus  Thomse  Creagh  pro  uxore  23°  Martii,     ...  00     6  0 

Suma   sest?cioru    huius    transact!    anni   est   751'   18S>   Ocl'  ster.,   pro 

quibus  et  ca3teris  beneficiis,  quse  nullis  nostris  suiFragentibus 

rneritis  sed  sola  dignatione  misericordiae  suae  in  nos 

confert  Dns  omnipotens,  sumas,  quas  vale- 

mus,  gratias  ei  rependimus. 

who  lived  in  the  commencement  of  the  pre-  Michael,  who  held  a  commission  in  the 
sent  century,  was  married  to  Jane  Kelly  British  navy ;  John's  brother,  Hugh, 
one  of  the  sisters  of  John  Kelly,  Esq.,  died  some  years  ago  in  Limerick;  and 
Deputy  Lieutenant  of  Limerick  (who  is  nearly  all  his  children  emigrated  to 
father-in-law  of  Edmund  Burke  Roche,  Australia.  The  Greatreaks  of  Lime- 
Lord  Fermoy),  and  of  Thomas  Kelly,  rick  were  allied  to  the  Ingoldsby-Massey 
Esq.,  of  Shannon  View,  Co.  Limerick,  family,  as  well  as  to  several  other  fami- 
and  had  two  daughters,  viz.,  Miss  Great-  lies  among  the  gentry  of  the  county  and 
reaks,  who  resides  with  her  uncle,  Tho-  city  of  Limerick,  including  the  Scanlans, 
mas  Kelly,  Esq. ;  and  Mrs.  Sampson,  the  Massys,  &c. 
who  dwells  in  Limerick,  and  a  son, 


30 

Ano  Dni  1621. 
«  Criatophorus  Comyn  do  Thomounia  arthrietic?  27°  Martii     £    ^    <L 

:  - 


1    JjCWlS  11CIU1  A  iceoiv  i  .-.p.     ,  -        .-. 

"Ellicia  neyn  theig1  vidua  3°  Aprilis,.     .     .     ;     -     -     •  £  JJ' '  2 

"GuiliclimuBGreatreekespnedictusH-Apnlis,  .     .     .     -  0300     0 

"PhillisComyn  prose  19°  Aprilis, UO  10 

"  Catherina  ny  Ronane  pdicta  22°  Aprilis, 00  10     0 

" Thomas  Loftus  28°  Aprilis,     .          . nn     £     n 

"  Edmundus  Do  wley  mercator  2°  Maij,  .     ...  wo 

"  Johannes  Sexten  pro  uxore  5°  Maij, w     7 

44  Richardus  Galway  pdictus  8°  May, uu  J 

>4  Nono  die  Maij  1621  profectus  sum  Dublinm  etconquestus 
de  Dominico  Jordanis  Roch  tune  4m°  prsetore  Lim/icensi 
qui  nulla  justitia  aut  ratione  sibi  suffragante,  sed  ex  dolo 
mala  et  prava  erga  me  voluntate  impediuit  .pgressum 
operis  mei  inchoati  circa  constructionem  domus  meae  m 
suburbibus  Australibus  Lirnicensibus  in  platea  Mongrett 
dicta,  donee  Proregis  1  Ordinu  regni  decreto  et  mandate 
victor  euasi  rt  causa  potitius  reuersus  Lyniicu  diu  inter- 
ruptii  opus  exequtus  sum.2 

14  Hector  Arthurius  pro  uxore  3°  Junij, 01  00     0 

"  Matvona  Peacock  angla  pro  filio  9°  Junij, 00 

41  Thomas  O'Donell  pro  uxore  12°  Junij, 00  1 

44  Guilielmms  Eduardi  Stretch  pro  uxore  Margarita  18  J.,  .  00  10     0 

41  Jacobus  Petri  Stretch  pro  uxore  25°  Junij, 00  10     0 

44  Georgius  Bartholomaji  Stretch  30°  Junij, 00     6     0 

4 4Petrus  Andrea)  Cragh3  pro  uxore  Ellinora  Ryce  2°  Julij,  0013     6 

"  Stephanus  Jacobi  Whyte  5°  Julij, 00     7     0 

44  Eduardus  Georgii  Ryce  10°  Julij, 00     5     0 

*'  Thomas  Jacobi  Whyte  14°  Julij  pro  filio, 00  10     6 

44  Robertus  Cromwell  19°  Julij, 00     5     0 

44  Edmundus  Mahowne  24°  Julij, 00     6     0 

"  Ancilla  Justiciarii  Gosnell  angla  29°  Julij, 00     7     0 

44  Thomas  Loftus  prsedictus  2°  Augusti, 00     5     0 

1  The  name  is  an  old  Limerick  one,  "  Create  Stone Howse,"  Mungret-street, 
though  not  frequent  now-a-days.  After  Limerick,  which  Dr.  Arthur  built  at 
a  vacancy  of  nearly  a  year  and  a  half  great  expense,  and  an  account  of  which 
subsequent  to  the  death  of  George  Dow-  is  given  in  Lenihan's  History.  Dr.  Ar- 
dall,  Roman  Catholic  Archbishop  of  thur  elsewhere  in  the  MSS.  gives  each 
Armagh  (Temp.  Eliz»e.  Rg**.),  the  See  item  he  expended  in  labour  and  in  ma- 
was  filled  by  the  Pope,  who  appointed,  terials  for  this  house,  the  erection  of 
in  the  Consistory  of  February  the  7th,  which  was  superintended  by  one  Smith,  an 
1560,  a  presbyter  of  the  diocese  of  4t  Englishe  mazon"  (mason).  It  appears 
Limerick,  named  Donatus  Mac  Teighe,  that  the  workmen  were  fed,  as  well  as 
to  the  primatial  See  of  Ireland.  The  paid,  during  the  time  they  were  en- 
Papal  Bull  is  dated  from  Rome  on  the  gaged  by  Dr.  Arthur,  according  to  the 
22nd  of  March,  156J.  A  copy  of  it  custom  of  the  time ;  and  that  large 
is  printed  at  p.  118  of  Lenihan's  History  quantities  of  butter  were  in  those  years 
of  Limerick.  No  doubt  the  above  Ellice  imported  from  England. 
was  a  relative  of  the  Archbishop.  3  He  was  subsequently  Mayor,  and  a 
»  The  house  referred  to  was  the  very  remarkable  and  eminent  citizen. 


31 

£    s.  d. 

"  Patricius  Richardi  Arthurius  9°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"  Quidam  Thuomoniensis  14°  Augusti, 00     6  0 

"  Guilielimus  Edwardi  Stretch  prsedict.  20°  Augusti,      .     .  00  10  0 

"  Henricus  Barckley  pro  filia  28°  Augusti, 00     8  0 

"Johannes  Nicholai  Loftus  31°  Augusti, 00     5  0 

"Jaspar  Woulf  pro  filio  20°  Septembris, 00     8  0 

"  Thomas  Loftus  pro  filio, 00  12  6 

"  Guilielimus  Haly  Senator  pro  uxore  7°  Septembris,     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Phillipus  Sexten  pro  uxore  Catherina  10°  Septembris,      .  00  10  6 

"Petrus  Christopher!  Arthurius  19°  Septembris,  .     ...  00   15  0 

"  Hector  Arthurius1  prsedict.  pro  uxore  24°  Septemb.,    .     .  00     8  0 

"  Dermitius  O'Dereleo  fulo2  pro  uxore  28°  Septemb.,     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Stephanus  Thomse  Creagh  pro  uxore  5°  Octobris,    .     .     .  00  1 1  0 

"  Dominicus  Haly  doliarius3  distructione  hepatis  detent?      .  00     5  0 

"Guilielimus  Greatreeks  prasdictus  17°  Octobris,  .     ...  03  00  0 

"  Catherina  Suppell  22°  Octobris, 0017  0 

"  Guilielimus  Richardi  Creagh  27°  Octobris  pro  uxore   .     .  00  11  0 
"  Thadasus  O'Dereleo4  qui  a  sumpta  infusione  emetica  vitri 
Antimonij  tineam  trigenta  pedes  longam  per  alva,  deiecit 
et  a  dires  torminibus  leuatus  est  quibus  dudu  cruciabutur 

3°  Novembris, 01  00  0 

"  Thomas  Dorninici  Arthurius  p  uxore  Margareta  9°  Nov.,  00     8  0 

"  Patricius  O'Nihil  fulo  13°  Novembris, 00     5  0 

"  Dermitius  O'Donell  pro  filio  cui,  ex  casu  diu  celato,  una  ex 
vertebris  spinse  dorsi  sub  diaphragmata  ex  propria  sede 
ad  posteriore  partem  prolapsa  est,  et  cruru  resolutio  % 

deinde  mors  sequta  est,  dedit  inihi  18°  Novembris,  .     .     .  01  00  0 

"  O'Donoghow  de  Gleanleisk,  30°  Novembris  dedit  mihi,      .  03     6  0 
"  Daniel  mc  Carthy  cognomento  caluus  dedit  mihi  equum 

valoris  quadragenta  solidoru  2°  Decembris, 02  00  0 

"  Eduardus  davidis  Woulf  6°  Decembris, 00     5  0 

"  Catherina  Suppell  praedicta  12°  Decembris, 02     3  0 

44  Georgius  Sexten  mercator  15°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"  Gualterus  Sexten  20°  Decembris, 00     8  0 

"  Quida  ruri  degens  2°  Januarij, 00  12  0 

"Nicholaus  ffaning  pro    uxore  immodico  mensiu    pfluuio 

pene  extincta  quc  vix  sistere  valuimus  5°  Januarij,      .     .  01  00  0 

"  Johannes  Stephani  Roch  7°  Januarij, 00     4  0 

"  Quidam    Angla   quae    decubuit    in     sedibus     Peacok   9° 

Januarij,     .     . 00  10  0 

"Robertus  Ly Hies  p  uxore  febricitante  13°  Januarij, .     .     .  01   00  0 

"Nicholaus  O'Quonine  18°  Januarij, 00  10  0 

"  Patricius  Sheogh  pro  uxore  24°  Januarij, 00     5  0 

"Patricius  Stephani  Harrold  pro  uxore  29°  Januarij,      .     .  00  10  0 

"  Robertus  O'Hannane  plethora  cacochymica  laborans  3°  feb.  00  10  0 


1  Hector  Arthur  was  for  some  time  3  Coopers  then  enjoyed  fair  wages  in 

Town  Clerk  of  Limerick.  Limerick. 

8  Cloth  making  was  one  of  the  most  fa-  4  Now  represented  probably  by  Leo,  a 

mous  trades  of  Limerick  in  its  day,  and  name  common  in  Limerick,  and  scarce 

fullers  had  good  wages.  .  elsewhere. 


32 

£     s.     d. 

«  Phyllis  Johannis  Comyn  predicts  pro  se  10°  februarii,      . 

«  Richardus  Galwey  praBdictus  prose  15°  februarii,    .     ,     .  0011 

•<  Patricius  Oliueri  Harrold  pro  uxore  24"  februarii,  .          .  00     5     0 

••  bominicusBartholonuei  Why  te  pro  uxore  28°  februarii,  .  0010     0 

•  Michael  ffoxl°  Martij    •••••• m     9     n 

•  Gennetta  Andrre  Creagh  pro  se  4°  Martij,       .     .     •     •     •  01     2     0 

•  Richardus  Oliueri  Harrold  pro  uxore  9°  Martij 00     70 

•  Oliuerus  Robert!  Arthurius  13°  Martij 00     8 

•  Richardus  Galwcy  pro  uxore  18°  Martij, 00  11     0 

Patricias  MidcheU  23°  Martij,  1621, 

"Suffia  honorarioru  preterit!  anni  est  £46  105.  6d.  ster. 

pro   quibus  1  caeteris   diuinge   munificentiae   bene- 

ficiis,   quibus  tennitati   nostrse  subuenire  indies 

di^natur  sitnomen  Domini  benedictu  Amen. 

Ano  Dmii  1622. 
Phillipus  Ronane  a  contumaci  ictero  liberatus  prseter  com- 

plurium  expectations  27°  Martij  1622, 02  04  0 

Johannes  Skeolan  pleuriticus  30°  Martij, 0160 

Thomas  O'Nibill  2°  Aprilis, 00     5  0 

Guilielmus  Greatreekes  pdictus  12°  Aprilis, 03  10  0 

Johannes  Lancaster  prsedictus  13°  Aprilis, 01     2  0  ,' 

Johannes  Richardi  Arthurius  17°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Margareta  Tyrry  24°  Aprilis, 00     8  0 

Uxor  Registri  Episcopi  Angla  29°  Aprilis, 00     5  6 

Edmundus  Sexten  senator  2°  Maij, 01  00  0 

Michael  ffox  prjedictus  8°  Maij, 00     4  0 

Johannes  Haly  fulo  pro  uxore  15°  Maij, 00  12  0 

Thomas  Comyn  mercator  muenis  20°  Maij, 00     8  6 

Patricius  Gassy  pro  uxore  28°  Maij, 00  12  0 

Anthonius  Laurence  anglus  4°  Junij, 00     5  0 

Johannes  Wander woorth1  belgic?  9°  Junij 00  10  0 

Thomas  O'Dowell  pro  filio,  12°  Junij, 00     5  0 

Jacobus  Georgii  Creagh  15°  Junij, 00  13  6 

Petrus  Andrea?  Creagh  21°  Junii, 00  10  0 

Nicholaus  Barth.  Stretch  <g  uxore  29°  Junii, 00  12  0 

Edwardus  Georgii  Ryce  pro  uxore  4°  Julij, 00  10  0 

'Thomas  Johannis  Comyn  pro  uxore  9°  Julij, 00  10  0 

4  Johannes  Johannis  Edmundi  Geraldini  12°  Julij,    ...  00  10  0 

"  Robertas  Ly lies  pro  uxore  14°  Julij, 00  10  0 

"  Quidam  Thuomoniensis2  17°  Julij, 00     5  6 

u  David  Mahowne  pro  uxore  20°  Julij, 00     6  0 

1  Several  Dutchmen  and  Belgians  by  a  beautiful  woodcut  in  a  preceding 
settled  in  Limerick  before  KingWilliam's  number  of  the  Kilkenny  Archaeological 
time,  and  a  few  of  them  figure  in  after  Journal,  and  by  a  historical  notice  writ- 
years  on  the  mayoralty  roH.  ten  by  the  present  writer.  The  Tho- 
Thomond,  L  e.,  the  present  county  of  mond  men  were  always  fond  of  visiting 
Uare.  Thomond  Gate  was  a  principal  Limerick.  The  first  mayor  of  the  city  is 
gate  of  the  city  of  Limerick.  Old  Tho-  said,  in  tradition,  to  have  been  • '  Oe6m 
mond  bridge  has  been  already  illustrated  a  Scoob,"  a  Clare  man 


33 

£  s.  d. 

"  Jacobus  Whyte  iunior  25°  Julij, 00  10  0 

"  Petrus  Harrold  pdictus  £  filia  pdicta, 01  10  0 

"Gabriell  Galwey  pro  uxore  Joafia  Stretch  2°  Augustis,     .  00  10  0 

"  Thomas  Jacob!  Whyte  £  filio  pdicto  9°  Augustis,     ...  00  1 1  0 

"Edmund  Harrold  pro  uxore  Joana  Creagh  13°  August!,   .  00  8  0 

"  David  ffox  pro  uxore  17°  August!, 00  10  0 

"  Stephanus  Petri  Whyte  pro  uxore  22°  August!,      .     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Robertus  Lyllies  predict  pro  uxore  27°  August!,      ...  01  2  0 

"Philippus  Comyn  pro  filio  31°  August!, 00  5  0 

"  Nauta  quidam  belgic9x  5°  Septembris, 01  0  0 

"  Bernardus  Adams  pseudo-epus  Lynlicensis2  9°  Sep.,      ..0120 

"Richardus  Woulf  pro  filio  prsedicto  ^cuerato  13°  Septem.,  01  10  0 
**  David  Comyn  Senator,  cui  hepar  impendio  calidum  ven- 

triculi  facultatem  prostrauit  18°  Septembris,      ....  01  00  0 

u  Eobertus  Lyllies  pictus  p  uxore  23°  Septembris,      .     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Margareta  Richard!  Creagh  29°  Septembris, 00  5  0 

"  Nicholaus  Faning  3°  Octobris, 00  15  0 

"  Ellina  Everard  6°  Octobris, 00  6  0 

"Nicholaus  Loftus  11°  Octobris  p  se, 00  8  0 

u  Uxor  pseudo-Prsecentoris  Lyrriicens'  Goagh3  16°  Octob.,    .  00  11  0 

(To  be  continued.) 


THE  TORY  WAR  OF  ULSTER,  WITH  THE  HISTORY  OF  THE 
THREE  BRENNANS  OF  THE  COUNTY  OF  KILKENNY; 
DESCRIPTIVE  OF  IRELAND  FROM  THE  RESTORATION 
TO  THE  REVOLUTION. 

BY  JOHN  P.  PRENDERGAST,  ESQ.,  BARRISTER-AT-LAW. 

IN  the  month  of  November,  1683,  all  Ireland  rang  with  the  news 
of  the  capture,  at  Chester,  of  three  proclaimed  "  Tories  and  Rebells" 
of  the  county  of  Kilkenny  and  adjacent  districts,  named  Brennan. 
They  were  safe  in  Chester  jail.  The  Mayor  of  Chester  announced 
the  good  news  to  the  Duke  of  Ormond,  then  Lord  Lieutenant  of 
Ireland,  at  his  house  in  St.  James's-square,  London.  The  Chief 
Justice  of  Ireland  congratulated  the  Duke.  The  Duke  thanked 
the  Mayor  of  Chester,  and  requested  him  to  have  a  careful  eye  to 
the  prisoners. 

1  It  would  appear  that  considerable      jured  during  the    Great    Rebellion  of 
commerce  existed  between  Belgium  and       1611. 

Limerick  in  those  days.  3  The  ancestor  of  the  present  Field 

2  Bernard  Adams.  Protestant  Bishop,  Marshal  Lord  Viscount  Gough,    K.  B. 
whose  tomb  may  be  seen  in  St.  Mary's  The    Precentor    was   afterwards    Pro- 
Cathedral.     The  tomb  was  greatly  in-  testant  Bishop  of  Limerick. 


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During  the  three  years  before  their  arrest  they  had  robbed  His 
Majesty's  good  subjects  of  £1  2,000,  and  upwards,  in  cash.  They 
had  been  tried,  convicted,  and  sentenced,  and  brought  out  to  be 
handed  •  but  had  been  rescued  from  the  very  scaffold  and  the  hands 
of  the  hangman.  They  were  "  proclaimed"  as  Tories  and  rebels  in 
Ireland  ;  they  were  pursued  by  armed  men  ;  rewards  were  offered 
for  their  heads—  but  in  vain.  After  lying  quietly  for  some  time  at 
Rin^send,  then  the  port  of  Dublin,  they  sailed  thence  to  North 
Wafes—  their  horses  (described  as  "  delicate"  ones,  or  as  we  should 
now  say,  well-bred),  with  one  of  their  comrades  as  groom,  in  one 
vessel,  themselves  in  another. 

They  were  "rich  in  apparel,"  —  wore  swords,  which  they  at- 
tempted  to  draw  on  their  captors  in  the  streets  of  Chester.  They 
were  heavily  shackled  in  jail  ;  yet  before  long  all  Ireland  rang 
again  (as  did  now  London  itself)  with  their  escape.  For,  after  a  few 
days  they  had  overpowered  the  jailer  and  his  warders,  and  opened 
the  prison  doors  for  themselves. 

All  this  is  strange  ;  but  stranger  still  is  it,  that  they  are  next 
year  back  in  Ireland,  and,  with  a  band  of  brother  Tories,  break  into 
Kilkenny  Castle,  the  Duke  of  Ormond's  chief  residence  in  Ireland, 
and  carry  off  the  Duke's  plate.  But  strangest  of  all,  they  are  "  taken 
into  protection"  a  few  months  afterwards  by  the  Lord  Deputy  of 
Ireland,  and  allowed  the  use  of  their  horses  and  travelling  arms,  in 
order  to  the  discovering  their  accomplices,  and  "  doing  service,"  as 
it  was  called,  that  is,  killing  other  Tories  ;  and  the  Grand  Jury  of 
the  county  of  Kilkenny  actually  "present"  it  as  their  advice  that 
they  should  be  taken  into  permanent  protection,  as  the  best  course 
to  suppress  robberies  and  felonies  in  that  part  of  the  kingdom. 

"  A  thing  impossible  to  us 

This  story  seems  to  be  ; 
None  dares  be  now  so  venturous, 
But  times  are  changed,  we  see. 

In  those  days  men  more  barbarous  were, 

And  lived  less  in  awe  ; 
Now  (God  be  thanked)  people  fear 

More  to  offend  the  law." 

But  it  was  not  only  in  Kilkenny  that  such  rebels  and  outlaws 
5  to  be  found.     The  same  parts  which  these  Brennans  played 
i  the  counties  of  Kilkenny,  Queen's  County,  Carlow,  and  W  ex- 
ford  did  Redmond  O'Hanlon,  Kedagh  O'Harte,  and  others,  their 
contemporaries,  play  in  the    counties   of  Londonderry,  Armagh, 
rrone  and  Down.     And  the  O'Hanlons  and  the  Brennans  of  1683 


u       tlje.8u^e880r8  of  Colonel  Dudley  (or  Dualtagh)  Costello 
and  hia  band,  m  the  county  of  Mayo,  of  Cornet  Edmund  Nangle  in 


the  county  of  Longford,  of  Colonel  Coughlan  in  the  King's  County, 
and  of  Colonel  Power  in  Munster,  in  1666  ;  as  these  last-named  men 
were  of  the  Tories  of  the  Cromwellian  era,  such  as  Gerald  Kinshela 
in  Carlo  w,  and  Donogh  O'Derrick,  or  Doyle,  "  commonly  called 
Blind  Donogh" — who,  however,  could  see  well  enough  to  surprise, 
near  Timolinn,  in  the  neighbouring  county  of  Kildare,  in  the  month 
of  January,  1654-5,  eight  of  Dr.  Petty's  English  surveyors  engaged 
upon  the  Down  survey,  whence  they  carried  them  into  the  woods, 
and  after  some  drum-head  kind  of  court-martial,  murdered  them, 
as  accessaries,  probably,  in  their  opinion,  to  a  scheme  of  gigantic 
and  cruel  robbery.1 

Leaving  aside,  however,  upon  the  present  occasion,  any  further 
reference  to  the  disturbers  of  the  Cromwellian  peace,  it  may  be 
worth  while,  in  connexion  with  the  case  of  the  Brennans,  to  hear 
something  of  the  Tories  during  the  Restoration  era.  We  allude  to 
the  thirty  years  comprised  between  1660  and  1690,  or  the  interval 
between  the  completion  of  the  Cromwellian  settlement  and  the 
commencement  of  the  war  that  resulted  in  the  Revolution  settle- 
ment. 

Rebels  and  outlaws,  of  the  same  or  similar  character,  fought, 
robbed,  and  died  by  ball,  or  steel,  or  rope,  during  all  that  period  (and 
indeed  much  beyond  it) ;  so  that  the  following  lines  from  the  ballad 
we  have  already  quoted  are  exactly  true: — 

"  For  thirty  years,  or  something  more, 

These  outlaws  lived  thus, 
Feared  of  the  rich,  loved  of  the  poor, 
A  thing  most  marvellous."2 

In  this  tale  of  the  Brennans  will  be  found  something  more  than 
an  adventurous  story.  It  may  even  present  views  of  history  which 
may  in  this  way  be  impressed  upon  the  mind  more  clearly  and 
firmly  than  by  any  set  treatise. 

1  "Ordered,  that  Mr.  James  Standish,  Dated  att  Dublin  Castle,  the  25th   of 

Receiver-General,  &c.,   do,   out  of  the  December,     1655.       Henry    Cromwell, 

first  monies  that  shall  come  to  his  hands,  Richard  Pepys,    Rob1.  Goodwin,   Miles 

pay  unto  Collonell  Henry  Pretty,  Gover-  Corbet,  Mathew  Tomlinson."     Book  of 

nor  of  Catherlough,  the  summe  of  one  the  Council  for  the  Affairs  of  Ireland, 

hundred  pounds  to  be  by  him  disposed  of  Al,    p.  325,    Record    Tower,     Dublin 

to  such  persons  as  lately  took  Donough  Castle. 

Doyle,  or  Derrig,  alias,  called  Blind  2  In  the  original"  Thirteen."  "A  true 
Donnough  (the  notorious  Tory,  Rebell,  tale  of  Robin  Hood,  carefully  collected 
and  Theif),  at  Tymolyn,  in  the  house  out  of  the  truest  writers  of  our  English 
whence  he  and  his  party  took  the  eight  chronicles,  and  published  for  the  satis- 
English  surveyors  who  were  thence  car-  faction  of  those  who  desire  truth  from 
ried  into  the  woods  and  most  barba-  falsehood."  Collection  of  all  the  ancient 
rously  murthered.  And  for  so  doing,  poems,  songs,  and  ballads,  concerning 
this,  with  the  receipt  of  the  said  Collo-  Robin  Hood.  12mo.  Longmans,  Lon- 
nell  Henry  Pretty,  shall  be  a  warrant.  don,  1820,  p.  104. 


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It  has  been  said  by  one  who,  by  his  mode  of  reciting  them,  made 
fables  more  effective  than  treatises  of  morals— 

"II  faut  imtruire  et  plaire: 
Et  center  pour  center  me  semble  pen  d'affaire;" 

adding^  in  explanation  of  his  meaning, 

"Une  morale  nue  apporte  de  1'ennuie, 
Le  conte  fait  passer  le  precepte  avec  lui."1 

These  Tories  or  outlaws,  then,  will  be  found  to  have  had  their 
origin  in  the  extraordinary  revolutions  which  landed  property  in 
Ireland  underwent  in  Queen  Elizabeth's,  James  the  First's,  Charles 
the  First's,  Cromwell's,  and  Charles  the  Second's  reigns— nothing 
in  the  history  of  Europe  being  similar  to  the  Cromwellian  Settle- 
ment except  the  conquests  effected  by  the  northern  barbarians ;  so 
that,  had  Augustin  Thierry  only  known  it,  he  need  not  have  selected 
the  Conquest  of  England  by  the  Normans  on  the  grounds  of  its 
being  the  latest  of  those  conquests  where  men,  deprived  of  all  that 
makes  life  valuable,  are  seen  resigning  themselves  to  the  sight  of 
strangers  sitting  as  masters  at  their  own  hearths,  or  frantic  with 
despair,  rushing  to  the  forest  to  live  there  like  wolves,  in  rapine, 
murder,  and  independence.2 

During  the  King's  exile  the  great  work  of  Cromwell  was  accom- 
plished. At  the  .Restoration  the  lands  of  those  who  had  stood 
for  the  liberty  of  Ireland  and  the  king's  right,  and  those  of  all  Ro- 
man Catholics  were  in  the  possession  of  the  Officers  and  Soldiers  of 
Cromwell's  army,  and  of  the  Adventurers. 

Generals,  colonels,  captains,  and  lieutenants  of  the  Parliamen- 
tary forces,  now  claimed  the  ancient  castles  of  the  royalist  and 
native  nobility  and  gentry  of  Ireland  as  the  residences  and  property 
of  themselves  and  their  families.  Or  an  Adventurer — some  mer- 
chant of  London,  or  tradesman  from  a  provincial  town  in  England — 
had  set  himself  down  with  his  wife  and  children,  and  servants,  in 
what  had  lately,  and  long  before  been,  the  mansion  of  some  old 
English  family  of  the  birth  of  Ireland;  some  Butler,  Fitzgerald,  or 
Plunket,  or  of  some  nobleman  or  gentleman,  Irish  both  by  birth 
and  blood;  some  Kavanagh,  McCarthy,  O'Brien,  or  O'Keefe. 
Or,  harder  still,  some  of  the  newer  English  of  the  birth  of  Ireland ; 
some  planter  of  James  the  First's  reign  had  annexed  the  estate  of 
his  late  neighbour  and  friend ;  nay,  often  his  ally  by  marriage  (and 

i  «  Fables  de  La  Fontaine."  Livre  vi.,       graphical  Preface  to  the  History  of  my 
•  i^K         5etLeL!°n<  Historical    Works   and    Theories,"  by 

Let  the  reader  consult-"  Autobio-       Augustin  Thierry 


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many  another's  estate  besides)  to  his  own  already  too- wide  domains, 
bent  on  making  estated  gentlemen  of  all  his  sons. 

It  was  thus  Broghill  possessed  himself  of  the  manor  of  Blarney, 
and  this  many  years  before  the  army  of  Cromwell  were  assigned  any 
lands  for  their  arrears.  After  some  wavering,  he  joined  Cromwell 
upon  his  invasion  of  Ireland.  The  manor  of  Blarney  seems  to 
have  been  his  price,  for  in  every  Act  and  Ordinance  of  Parliament 
relating  to  Irish  lands  during  Cromwell's  life  and  reign,  there  is 
always  a  proviso,  that  nothing  in  the  Act  contained  shall  preju- 
dice the  right  of  Roger  Lord  Broghill  to  the  castle  and  manor  of 
Blarney.  It  was  the  ancestral  seat  of  Donagh  McCarthy,  Vis- 
count Muskerry,  brother-in-law  of  the  Marquis  of  Ormond.  It 
lay  within  seven  miles  of  Cork,  and  its  master  and  Broghill 
were  familiar  friends.  But  Broghill  had  the  thirst  for  Irish 
confiscations,  like  an  hereditary  disease  inherent  in  his  blood. 
He  was  son  of  that  first  Earl  of  Cork  who  had  come  over  to  Ireland 
(as  was  commonly  said),  a  barefooted  boy,  not  sixty  years  before,1 
yet  died  the  possessor  of  forfeited  estates,  reaching  from  the 
city  of  Cork  eastward,  to  Youghal,  and  westward  almost  to  Crook- 
haven,  a  length  of  nearly  fifty  miles.2  Lord  Broghill  was  not 


1  "  Shortly  before  this  resolution" 
[i.  e.  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  county  of 
Tipperary  to  take  up  arms  in  Christmas 
Holydays  of  1641,  for  their  defence]. 
"  Philip  O'Dwire  of  Dounedromore 
[Dundrum],  a  gentleman  of  such  qua- 
lity and  estate  yl  he  could  not  brook  the 
reviling  language  of  Sir  William  St. 
Leger  [and  he  and  the  rest  seeing]  ye 
Irish  estates  exposed  to  men  of  meane 
birth,  who  aimed  to  raise  estates  by  the 
ruin  of  innocents,  so  that  Sir  W.  Par- 
sons and  ye  Earl  of  Corke,  who,  within 
this  sixty  years  past  coming  as  naked  lads 
here  without  either  friends,  means,  or 
learning  ....  were  glad,  in  the  service 
of  one  Keny,  then  Escheator  General, 
to  earne  their  livelihood  in  his  menial 
service,  wherein  they  learnt  those  tricks, 
acquiring  by  hook  and  crooke,  lands, 
offices,  and  livings,  that  they  were 
shortly  after  the  ablest  men  for  riches' 

in  the  Kingdom And,  as  for  Sir 

John  Borlase,  Sir  W.  S*  Leger,  ye 
Lord  Esmond,  Sir  Cha8  Coote,  and 
others  of  their  conditions,  which  being 
from  single  soldiers,  were  by  ye  exten- 
sion of  ye  favours  of  ye  succeeding 
Kings  and  Queens  of  England  advanced 
to  wealth  and  dignities,  yet  they  did  not 
ascend  by  their  gallantry,  for  there  was 
no  occasion  to  draw  their  swords  from 
the  beginning  of  King  James's  reign." — 


Memorialls  of  the  Warre  begunn  in  1641, 
wrote  by  Mr.  [James]  Kearney,  in  the 
Co.  of  Tipperary,  in  Febr.  165f .  p.  28. 
Carte  Papers,  MS.,  Bodleian  Library, 
Oxford,  vol.  64,  p  732,  and  following 
pages. 

2  Orrery  (Broghill)  writes  thus  to  Pri- 
mate Boyle,  Lord  Chancellor  : — 

"  Charleville,  March  10,  1667-8. 

"  DEARE  COZEN,  ....  First,  when  I 
married  my  son  Broghill,  because  he  was 
not  of  age  to  join  with  me  in  settling  a 
jointure  for  his  wife,  I  did  binde  all  ye 
estates  I  had  acquired  (which  is  all  my 
younger  children  are  to  have  to  live  up- 
on) as  collateral  security  for  that  joyn- 
ture  till  my  son  comes  of  age  to  joyn 
with  me  in  settling  her  joynture  out  of 
my  old  Estate."  Carte  Papers,  vol.  xxxv., 
p.  162. 

The  lands  obtained  under  Cromwell 
and  the  Acts  of  Settlement,  were  usually 
distinguished  by  the  grantees  from  their 
inherited  Estates  (which  they  called  their 
old  Estate),  by  the  name  of  their  "New 
Estate."  Thus,  Orrery  says,  that  Ar- 
thur Hill  (ancestor  of  the  present  Mar- 
quis of  Downshire),  settles  his  New 
Estate  on  his  second  family.  "  Orrery's 
Letters,"  vol.  i.,  p.  112.  So,  Lord  Mount- 
rath  makes  a  will  leaving  his  New 
Estate  for  the  benefit  of  his  younger 


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ashamed,  in  his  lust  for  Irish  land,  to  possess  himself  of  his  friend, 
Muskerry's,  noble  castles  and  demesnes. 

In  like  manner  Sir  Charles  Coote,  first  Earl  of  Mountrath,  and 
son  of  the  first  settler  in  Ireland,  Provost  Marshal  of  Connaught, 
already  largely  rewarded  by  James  the  First  with  rich  pasture 
lands  in  Roscommon,  and  Plantation  lands  in  the  county  of  Leitrim, 
obtained  the  castle  and  demesne  of  Tirellan,  near  the  town  of  Gal- 
way,  the  ancient  seat  of  the  Marquis  of  Clanricard. 

Meanwhile,  the  former  inhabitants  were  either  pining  in  confine- 
ment and  misery  in  Connaught,  or,  as  soldiers  of  Charles  the  Second, 
had  taken  conditions  from  the  King  of  Spain.  The  nobility  and 
higher  gentry,  who  had  been  colonels,  lieutenant-colonels,  and  cap- 
tains of  the  army  commissioned  by  the  king  in  Ireland  in  the  years 
1649,  and  had  fought  against  Cromwell  and  Ireton,  till  1652,  ob- 
tained similar  rank  in  the  regiments  formed  abroad,  out  of  the 
40,000  men,  and  more,  that  had  retired  to  Spain  and  Flanders  be- 
tween 1652  and  1655. 

Military  service  abroad  was  the  resource  of  all  the  gentry,  ex- 
cept those  who  were  too  old  or  weak  to  fly,  or  were  detained  by  a 
charge  of  family  and  children,  and  were  without  means  to  maintain 
them  in  foreign  countries.  The  Duke  of  York,  the  Duke  of  Glou- 
cester, the  Marquis  of  Ormond,  Lord  Muskerry,  became  colonels- 
in-chief;  the  principal  exiled  landed  proprietors  became  lieutenant- 
colonels  and  commissioned  officers  ;  the  lesser  gentry,  non-commis- 
sioned officers.  Many  a  gentleman  even  trailed  a  pike  as  a  common 
soldier  among  his  former  tenants  and  followers,  happy  thus  to  find 
a  living  that  brought  no  disgrace  or  forfeiture  of  social  rank.  The 
Irish  regiments  abroad  deemed  themselves,  during  all  the  period  of 
their  service,  subjects  of  King  Charles  the  Second.  They  marched 
and  fought  under  his  standards  or  ensigns,  and  (unfortunately  for 
themselves)  held  his  commands  paramount. 

This  is  what  the  king  himself  says  of  them  in  his  Gracious  De- 
claration of  the  30th  November,  1660,  for  the  Settlement  of  Ireland 
(afterwards  embodied;  in  the  Act  of  Settlement).1  In  fact,  they 
changed  sides  according  to  his  wishes,  from  Spain  to  France,  and 
from  France  to  Spain,  making  him  powerful  abroad  by  having  such 
a  force  at  his  back.  They  had  their  return  to  Ireland  constantly 
in  view.  They  fought  and  bled  to  establish  a  claim  to  be  restored. 

children.    «•  Report  of  the  Committee  of  ing  the  time  of  our  being  beyond  the  Seas, 

the  Board  concerning  the  Earl  of  Mount-  when,    with   all   cheerfulness   and  obe- 

rath  and  the  Countess,  and  the  younger  dience,  they  received  and  submitted  to 

children  of  y'  late  Earl."      Carte  Pa-  our  orders,    and  betook  themselves  to 

pers    vol.  lx.,  p.   110;  no  date.     This  that  service  which  we  directed  as  most 

the  common  arrangement.  convenient  and  behoofeful  at  that  time  to 

"We  did,  and  must  always  remem-  us,  though  attended  with  inconvenience 

the  great  affection  a  considerable  enough  to  themselves." — 14  &  15  Chas 

portion  of  this  Nation  exprest  to  us  dur-  II.,  chap.  2,  clause  4. 


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Their  hopes,  accordingly,  at  the  Bestoration,  were  high.  They  had 
dissolved  their  Confederation  in  1648,  and  put  their  forces  under 
the  king's  command,  represented  by  Ormond.  They  were  pro- 
mised, by  the  peace  of  1648,  an  Act  of  Pardon  and  Oblivion,  and 
restoration  to  their  estates.  They  had  proclaimed  him  king  in 
Ireland,  and  fought  against  Cromwell  to  recover  his  crown  for 
him ;  and  had  laid  him  under  fresh  obligations  by  their  services 
beyond  sea.  Both  obligations  were  acknowledged  by  the  King's 
Declaration. 

But  what  to  do  with  the  Cootes,  the  Broghiils,  the  Coles, 
the  Massareens,  the  Audley  Mervyns,  and  other  Cromwellians  in 
possession  ?  After  the  death  of  Oliver  the  Protector,  the  king  wrote 
secretly  to  Sir  Charles  Coote  from  Breda,  that  what  lands  he  had  got 
hold  of  should  be  secured  to  him  if  he  would  bring  him  in,  and 
authorized  him  to  assure  any  others  who  would  join  him,  of  theirs.1 

The  only  way  to  a  settlement  after  such  an  engagement  was  to 
disqualify  as  many  of  the  Cromwellians  in  possession,  as  it  might 
be  safe  to  put  out,  and  to  find  decent  pretences  for  barring  the 
restoration  of  as  many  of  the  Irish  as  possible.  The  lands  thus  dis- 
engaged were  to  reprize  the  Cromwellians  for  estates  taken  from 
them,  to  be  restored  to  their  former  proprietors. 

Imagination,  then,  may  easily  paint  the  scene  that  Ireland  pre- 
sented in  the  autumn  of  1660,  at  the  opening  of  the  Court  for  Exe- 
cuting the  king's  "Gracious  Declaration  for  the  settlement  of  all 
interests  there."  In  many  a  castle  was  some  fierce  Cromwellian 
colonel  or  captain,  or  man-at-arms,  with  his  sons,  determined  to  main- 
tain by  his  sword  (if  he  could  not  do  it  by  chicane)  what  was  gained 
by  the  sword.  Thus  Lord  Massareen  said  of  the  debate  in  the  House 
of  Peers,  touching  Sir  Henry  O'NeiPs  estate  in  his  possession,  tak- 
ing at  last  the  king's  printed  Declaration  in  his  hand,  "  That  he 
would  have  the  benefit  on't  by  this !"  putting  his  hand  to  his  sword.2 
Or  some  colonel,  as  colonel  Edward  Warren,  that  told  one  Mr. 
Bermingham,  seeking  to  recover  as  an  Innocent,  the  lands  in  his, 
(Warren's)  possession,  by  right  of  an  entail,  "  If  the  English  again 

1  The  King,  to  Sir  Charles  Coote.  my  service,  I  do  give  you  and  them  my  word 

"  Brussels,  March  16,  16f§.  to  make  good, I  resolve  to  make 

'* I  cannot  wonder  that  the  you  an  Earl,  and  to  confer  such  an  office 

Son  of  such  a  father  should  desire,  and  and  command  upon  you  as  shall  very 

attempt  to  do  an  act  worthy  of  him,  well  please  you,  and  to  take  your  whole 

and  which  must  contribute  much  to  the  family  into  my  care,  and  particular  care 

preservation  of  his  memory If  in  such  manner  as  shall  cause  you  to 

my  own  person  be  necessary,  I  will,  God  believe  that  I  am  very  heartily, 
willing,  come  to  you,  except  it  be  more  "  Your  affectionate  friend, 

necessary  that  I  go  to  England.    In  the  "  CHARLES  R." 

mean  time  whatever  you  shall  promise  in  Carte's  "Original  Letters  and  Papers," 

my  name,  and  in  my  behalf,  that  is  in  my  vol.  ii.,  p.  314,  2  vols.  8vo.  London,  1739. 
power  to  perform  for  the  encouragement  and  8  Carte  Papers,  MS.,  Bodleian  Li- 

reward  of  those  who  shall  join  with  you  in  brary,  Oxford,  vol.  G.  G.,  p.  178. 


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take  arms  in  their  hands  they  will  cut  off  your  tayles."1   Such  were 
the  English,  "  the  ins." 

Round  the  doors  of  the  newly  opened  Court  of  Claims  may  be 
pictured  an  anxious  crowd  of  impoverished  noblemen,  tattered 
gentlemen  of  old  descent,  some  of  English  blood,  some  of  pure 
Irish,  many  of  them  soldiers  of  foreign  air,  "  with  patched  buff  coats, 
jackboots,  and  bilbo  blade  ;"  broken-hearted  widows  and  orphans. 
These  were  the  "  outs,"  the  dispossessed  Irish.  Some  of  them  had 
spent  six  years  in  misery  in  Connaught  ;  some  ten  years  in  sieges 
and  battles  under  perpetual  fire  in  France  and  Flanders.  For, 
from  the  known  bravery  of  their  race  they  were  ever  allowed  the 
post  of  honour,  when  it  happened  also  to  be  the  post  of  danger  ;2 
others  in  garrets  and  cellars  in  Paris  or  Bruges.  The  dispossessed 
Irish  were  classed,  when  claimants  under  the  Act  of  Settlement, 
into  Innocents,  Article  men,  Ensign  men,  Nominees,  Letterees,  Mero 
motu  men,  Proviso  men,  besides  other  names  ;  but  the  four  first 
were  the  chief  classes.  Widows  ;  men  that  were  boys  at  school  in 
1641,  or  abroad  studying  in  France  or  Spain,  aged,  sick,  and  impo- 
tent men,  and  such  as  had  been  transplanted  "  only  on  account  of 
their  religion,"  —  these  are  instances  of  "  Innocents." 

But  if  any  of  them  had  lived  at  his  home  in  Munster  or  Con- 
naught,  or  in  the  parts  under  the  rule  of  the  Confederates,  though 
never  so  quietly,  it  was  a  bar  to  innocence.  This  was  to  "  have 
lived  in  the  rebel  quarters  ;"  and  yet  no  English  garrison  would 
trust  them,  nor  had  food  for  them.  If  it  was  alleged  in  their  behalf, 
that  the  law  never  before  had  deemed  the  family  criminal  that  lived 
quietly  in  their  own  home,  doing  nothing  (as  Sir  Nicholas  Plunket 
urged  before  the  king  and  council  at  Whitehall)  ;  it  was  answered 
by  Sir  Charles  Coote  :  "If  this  disqualification  be  taken  off,  the 
number  of  Innocents  will  be  so  great,  that  it  will  endanger  the  in- 
terests of  the  Adventurers  and  Soldiers  ;  and  will  give  the  Irish  a 
majority  in  Parliament."3  If  the  Innocent  had  accepted  land  in 
Connaught,  he  was  "  postponed,"  which  was  equivalent  to  being  dis- 
mist,  although  he  and  his  family  were  driven  thither,  and  would  be 
hanged,  or  else  transported  if  they  stayed,  or  starved  unless  they 
took  the  pittance  of  land  offered  for  their  support.  In  order,  then, 
to  be  restored,  they  must  claim  in  default  of  Innocency  under  the 
Articles  of  the  Peace  of  1648.  This  promised  to  the  Irish  who 
observed  it,  a  pardon  and  restoration.  The  claimant  would  then  be 
called  "  an  Articleman."  But  Articlemen  were  only  to  be  restored 
after  Innocents  had  been  provided  for.  If  he  could  not  claim 
articles,  he  must  then  resort  to  his  claim  as  Ensignman,  one  of 


1-  G  G^p'  17a  3  Letter  of  Sir  Charles  Coote  to  O- 

P       0  mMfc"?.  w  ^a»  Swift  mond'    Dated-  Dublin  Castle.  J™e  19, 

*«JV2S  I*1**  "Wo"*8'    ed"ed  1661,-Carte  Papers,  Bodleian  Library 

by  Sir  Walter  Scott,  vol.  xvn.  p.  449.  Oxford,  Vol.  F.  F.  p.  142. 


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"  those  who  continued  with,  or  served  faithfully  under  our  ensigns 
beyond  the  seas."  These,  however,  though  the  best  deserving, 
were  to  be  restored  last  of  all. 

If  ever  there  was  an  Innocent  it  was  Sir  Thomas  Sherlock,  of 
Butlerstown,  near  the  city  of  Waterford.  On  the  10th  October  of 
1660,  the  King  ordered  that  he  should  be  restored  on  the  report  of 
Lord  Chancellor  Eustace,  Arthur  Annesley,  and  the  other  refe- 
rees. He  had  been  besieged  in  his  castle  by  the  Irish  in  1641  ; 
and  imprisoned  by  them  in  Waterford,  and  thus  forced  to  take  the 
oath  of  association ;  but  as  soon  as  he  could  get  free,  fled  to  Eng- 
land, and  only  returned  upon  Cromwell's  invasion.  Cromwell 
ordered  his  estate  to  be  reserved  from  being  set  out  to  the  soldiery, 
or  if  set  out,  that  it  should  be  restored  to  Sir  Thomas  Sherlock, 
and  the  souldiers  reprized.  The  King,  taking  this  report  into  con- 
sideration, "and  finding  (so  His  Majesty's  letter  runs)  the  said  Sir 
Thomas  Sherlock  to  be  very  much  oppressed  in  the  late  time  of 
tyranny  by  those  in  power,  though  they  themselves  seem  to  be  sen- 
sible of  his  sufferings,  and  willing  to  remedy  them,  doe  hold 
ourselves  bound  in  honour  and  justice  to  see  that  right  be  done 
unto  the  said  Sir  Thomas,"  and  accordingly  commanded  as  well 
the  pretended  proprietors  of  any  of  his  houses,  or  lands,  to  forbear 
further  intermeddling,  and  directed  "  our  beloved  cousin  Roger, 
Lord  Broghill,  Earle  of  Orrery,  Lord  President  of  Munster,  within 
whose  government  the  said  county  of  Waterford  is,  to  see  this  order 
put  into  execution."1 

But  just  as  the  Cromwellian  soldiery  refused  submission  to  the 
Lord  Protector's  order,  insisting  they  had  an  Act  of  Parliament 
for  Sir  Thomas  Sherlock's,  and  other  Irish  Papists'  lands,  so  Lord 
Broghill  and  the  sheriffs  pretended  that  "  a  Paper  Order1'  was  no 
warrant  in  matters  of  land.  Yet,  when  the  King's  Gracious  De- 
claration was  issued,  which  was  framed  by  the  assistance  of  the 
Adventurers  and  Soldiers,  they  then  alleged  that  it  was  only  an 
Act  of  State,  and  no  safe  rule  to  walk  by  (so  the  Judges  in- 
formed them),  in  questions  of  inheritance.  And,  finally,  when  they 
had  gotten  the  King's  Declaration  turned  into  an  Act  of  Settlement, 
they  had  fresh  scruples  and  difficulties. 

The  tale  is  soon  told.  Worn  out  by  poverty  and  disappointment, 
Sir  Thomas  Sherlock  died  in  three  years  afterwards,  broken-hearted, 
and  a  pauper,  and  was  buried  at  the  public  expense,  as  is  evidenced 
by  the  following  entry  : — "  To  Paul  Sherlock,  sonne  and  heire  of 
Sir  Thomas  Sherlock,  deceased,  for  defraying  the  charges  of  bury- 
ing the  said  Sir  Thomas,  as  by  concordatum  dated  9th  December, 
1663,  Fiftie  pounds." 

1  Carte  Papers,  vol.  xli.,  p.  54. 
G 


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But  suppose  the  old  proprietor  had  got  into  possession  under  the 
King  s  order,  he  was  not  secure.  Take  the  case  of  Walter  rune 
of  Cullamnore,  in  the  county  of  Westmeath,  Esq.,  a  Nominee,  that 
is,  one  specially  named  in  the  Declaration,  and  Acts  of  Settlement 
and  Explanation,  as,  "  having  for  reasons  known  unto  us,  in  an 
especial  manner  merited  our  grace  and  favour,'  and  by  the  Decla- 
ration and  Act  of  Settlement1  to  be  restored  to  his  estate,  but 
afterwards  by  the  Act  of  Explanation2  to  his  chief  mansion  only, 
and  2000  acres  contiguous. 

In  his  petition  to  the  Duke  of  Ormond  in  the  year  1666,  he 
states,  that  neither  he  nor  his  deceased  father  accepted  any  lands 
from  the  usurpers  in  Connaught.  His  father  was  restored  to  part  of 
his  estate  under  His  Majesty  ^Letters,  in  the  year  1661,  which  he  (the 
petitioner)  continued  to  hold  until  that  he  was  dispossessed  (by  an 
injunction  from  the  Commissioners  of  Clairnes)  two  days  before  May 
last.  His  family,  he  says,  "  have  no  residence  att  present  by  reason 
of  his  giving  up  possession,  which  is  already  the  loss  of  his  Stocke, 
the  loss  of  his  Cropp  of  Corne  (which  the  Adventurer  immediately 
seized  upon)  and  the  ruine  of  himself  and  family." 

"  That  his  Estate  is  contiguous,  and  not  2000  acres. 

11  That  the  said  Tuite  is  constantly  resident  in  this  Citty  of  Dublin 
this  twelve  months  of  Satturday  last,  having  not  sixpence  this  halfe  year 
paste  to  relieve  him. 

44  That  one  of  said  Tuite's  sonns,  within  a  month  after  they  lost  their 
possession,  through  cold  and  want,  sickened,  and  is  now  on  the  point  of 
death,  given  over  by  the  doctors,  without  any  hope  of  recovery. 

44  That  the  said  Tuite's  eldest  sonne,  for  want  of  any  other  place  of 
residence  or  anything  to  relieve  him,  followed  him  to  this  Citty,  where  he 
sickened  allsoe,  and  was  this  month  past  in  the  hands  of  doctors,  but  now 
beginns  to  mend  if  he  had  wherewith  to  relieve  him. 

44  That  the  said  Tuite's  mother,  daughter,  and  two  other  of  his  sonnes 
are  ever  since  May  last  ranging,  the  Lord  knows  where;  having  not  a  bit 
to  putt  into  their  mouths. 

"May  it  therefore  please  your  Grace  [he  concludes]  to  take  pity  of 
your  Petitioner's  most  miserable  condition  in  giving  him  some  present 
relief,  as  alsoe  that  your  Grace  may  recommend  him  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Court  of  Clairnes,  that  hee  may  be  one  of  the  first  Nominees  that 
they  shall  settle  in  his  2000  A.  And  the  rather  that  there  is  not  any  of 
y*  Nominees  in  so  badd  a  condition,  haveing  for  the  most  part  of  them 
gott  Lands  in  Connaught,  and  the  rest  of  them  some  other  grants  or  lands 
by  way  of  Custodium,  or  otherwise  to  relieve  them."3 


1  14  &  15  Chas  II.  [A.  D.  1662],  chap.       chap.  2,  sec.  cxlviii. 

/l-'^Vo    r  Carte  Papers,  Bodleian  Library,  vol. 

»  17  &  18  of  same  kmg  [A.  D.  1665],      lx.,  p.  267. 


43 

To  pass  from  Innocents  and  Nominees  to  Ensignmen,  a  most 
numerous  class. 

Upon  the  King's  return  they  were,  for  the  first  year  or  so, 
more  fortunate  than  some  others  of  their  countrymen.  Little  did 
they  then  expect  that  not  one  of  them  would  get,  by  the  King's 
Declaration  or  Acts  of  Settlement,  so  much  of  their  fathers' 
lands  as  would  serve  for  a  grave.1 

The  Duke  of  York's,  Colonel  Farrel's,  and  Colonel  Grace's  regi- 
ments, continued  still  embodied  at  Mardike,  in  Holland.  Great 
numbers  of  this  class  rode  in  the  King's  and  Duke  of  York's  Life- 
guards. Thus,  some  of  them  had  a  present  livelihood.  The  body 
of  them  appointed  Committees  to  watch  over  their  interests  during 
the  concoction  of  the  King's  Declaration  by  the  Agents  of  the 
Adventurers  and  Souldiers,  at  the  Council  Board,  where  they  fared 
badly;  being  put  last  for  restoration.  They  remained  in  London, 
attending  and  petitioning  while  the  Act  of  Settlement  was  on  the 
anvil  in  1662  at  the  Court  at  White  Hall;  but  they  did  not  find 
their  condition  mended  in  the  Act  of  Settlement.  And  they 
watched  and  prayed  again  in  1664  and  1665,  while  the  Act  of  Ex- 
planation was  in  contrivance.  But  this  put  an  end  for  ever  to  the 
hopes  and  claims  of  the  Irish. 

In  1662  the  regiments  at  Mardike  were  disbanded.  The  re- 
formed, or  reduced  officers,  crowded  the  neighbourhood  of  White 
Hall,  seeking  for  some  relief  for  their  distress.  In  February,  166f, 
they  reminded  His  Majesty  how  they  had  repaired  to  him  in  Flanders 
from  their  services  elsewhere  abroad,  in  1656,  leaving  advantageous 
employments.  They  would  return,  they  said,  to  try  for  the  aid  of 
their  friends  in  their  own  country,  if  they  dared. 

But,  notwithstanding  their  fidelity,  they  feared  that  "  if  they 
returned  to  Ireland  their  arms  would  be  taken  from  them,  and  they 
thrown  into  jail  on  pretence  of  dangerousness."2 

To  this  petition  they  got  only  a  verbal  answer  assuring  them  of 
His  Majesty's  care.  They  waited  until  they  had  pawned  and  sold  all 
they  had,  even  their  very  clothes  and  arms,  to  maintain  themselves ; 
and  then  applied  again.3 

They  reminded  His  Majesty  how  they  were  broken  in  France, 
because  they  acted  according  to  his  Orders,  and  are  made  incapable 
of  serving  any  foreign  Prince,  because  of  their  constant  adhering  to 


1  Sec.  1124.      "The  Irish  that  was  us  eye-witnesses,  being  A  Treatise  or 

abroad,  followed  the  King  in  the  French  Account   of  the  Warr  or  Rebellion  in 

and  Spanish  services,  as  well  they  of  the       Ireland    since    the    year  1641 Carte 

Nuncio's  party  as  the  Ormonists :— Not  Papers,  vol.  64,  pp.  418,  431. 

one  of  them  got  by  the.  Act  of  Settle-  2  Calendar  of  State  Papers  "  Doraes- 

ment  as  much  land  as  would  serve  for  a  tic."     8vo.  London.  1860. 

grave."    Collections  by  friends,  some  of  3  Ibid.,  p.  207. 


44 

and  following  His  Majesty's  fortunes;  yet,  in  their  own  Country,  are 
not  intrusted  with,  nor  admitted  into  any  employment,  military  or 
civil,  whereby  they  might  be  able  to  subsist ;  that  their  estates  are 
enjoyed  by  those  who  got  them  from  the  usurpers  ;  that  they  are 
run  in  debt  for  bread  and  clothes  ;  some  are  dead  for  want,  others 
in  prison  for  debt,  the  rest  in  a  starving  condition ;  all  expecting 
the  same  misfortune,  "  unless  your  Majesty  will,  at  last,  effectually 
restore  your  Petitioners  to  their  said  Estates,  which  the  Earl  of 
Orrery,  at  the  Council  Board,  in  1660  (Sir  Audley  Mervyn,  then 
being  joint-agent  with  him,  and  concurring  with  him),  did,  in  your 
Majesty's  presence,  promise  should  be  done  in  three  months,  whereas 
three  years  are  expired."1 

The  delay  demanded,  as  they  reminded  the  King,  was  to  enable 
the  possessors  of  their  Estates  to  have  a  convenient  time  to  remove 
themselves,  their  families,  and  stocks.  "  Meantime,  whilst  these 
possessors  have  increased  their  stocks,  the  Petitioners  live  in  lan- 
guishing and  sad  conditions,  especially  since  they  lost  their  employ- 
ments in  your  Majesty's  service,  which  was  their  only  stock  and 
livelihood/'3 

They  lingered  in  London  on  the  business  of  their  claims,  until 
the  passing  of  the  Act  of  Explanation  in  the  year  1665,  which 
made  all  petitioning  vain.  It  is  truly  pitiable  to  trace  their  descent 
downwards  to  very  beggary,  and  many  of  them  (and  those  not  the 
least  fortunate)  to  death.  To  close  their  complainings  which,  per- 
haps, have  become  as  wearisome  here  as  they  became  to  the  King 
and  his  courtiers,  and  councillors  at  White  Hall,  their  last  petition 
follows  in  full : — 

44  To  the  King's  Most  Excellent  Matie. 

44  The  humble  Peticon  of  the  Officers  who  served  under  your  Matie" 
Royal  Ensigns  beyond  ye  Sea, 

44  SHEWETH, 

44  That  most  of  ye  Officers  who  served  under  your  Royall  Ensignes  be- 
yond sea  have  perished  by  famine,  since  your  Maties  happy  restauracon,  in 
soliciting  for  theire  Estates,  and  the  few  of  them  that  remaines  are  now 
like  to  perish  by  the  Plague,  haveing  not  any  meanes  to  bring  them  put 
of  this  Towne,  nor  knoweing  whither  they  shall  goe. 

11  Your  Petic6ners  humble  request  is  that  in  regard  they  are  but 
a  few  in  number  and  theire  estates  but  small,  Your  Matie  will 
be  gratiously  pleased  to  put  an  end  to  theire  sufferings,  by 

<  Manuscript  Collections  relating  to       in  the  Record  Tower,  Dublin  Castle. 
w  Act  of  Settlement,  Vol.  B.,  p.  413,          '  Ibid.,  Vol.  D.,  p.  121. 


45 

ordering  that  a  Provisoe  may  be  incerted  in  this  bill  to  re- 
store the  Peticoners  to  their  former  Estates. 

"  And  yor  Peticoners  shall  pray 


"  MAJOR  JOHN  NEALE. 
"CAPTAIN  DANIEL  O'KEEFFE. 
'  CAPTAIN  WM.  TUITE. 
4  CAPTAIN  TERENCE  BYRNE. 
*  CAPTAIN  DAVID  DANNAN. 


LIEUTENANT  RICHARD  BARRY. 
LIEUTENANT  JOHN  Fox. 
LIEUTENANT  WM.  BARRY. 
LIEUTENANT  THOS.  CUSACK. 
LIEUTENANT  HENRY  TUITE. 


*  CAPTAIN  MICHAEL  BRETT. 

*  CAPTAIN  WM.  STAPLETON. 

*  CAPTAIN  WALTER  BUTLER.  "  Reformed  Officers. 

4  CAPTAIN  PHILIP  BARRY.  "  CAPTAIN  CHARLES  M/CARTY. 

44  COLLONELL  P.  WALSH. 

44  COLLONELL  RICHD.  FITZGERALD. 
44  COLLONELL  CONNOR  O'DRiscoL."1 

The  doors  of  Whitehall  need  now  no  longer  be  waited  at. 
The  doors  of  the  Court  of  Claims,  too,  were  virtually  shut  against 
them.  Every  gate  of  hope  was  closed.  But  return  to  Ireland 
they  must,  to  rejoin  their  companions  in  misery,  and  add  a  fresh 
batch  to  the  crowds  of  unfortunate  anxious  wretches  that  sued  be- 
fore the  Commissioners  of  Claims,  or  hopelessly  wandered  near 
mansions  and  demesnes  that  had  been  their  fathers'  or  their  own. 

Ah,  happy  hills — ah,  peaceful  shades — 
Ah,  fields  beloved  in  vain ! 
Where  once  their  careless  childhood  strayed 
A  stranger  yet  to  pain ! 

One  may  realize  the  condition  of  the  Ensignmen  on  their  return 
to  their  native  country  more  fully,  perhaps,  by  a  few  instances. 
In  1665  Captain  Charles  Farrel  petitioned  the  Lord  Lieutenant 
and  Council  in  behalf  of  himself  and  his  brothers  Roger  Farrel 
and  Francis  Farrel,  all  sons  of  James  Farrel,  of  Bally  vaghan,  in 
the  county  of  Longford,  Charles  being  his  eldest  son  and  heir. 
Charles  had  never  been  in  Ireland  from  the  28th  of  April,  1641, 
until  His  Majesty's  happy  restoration,  and  never  involved  in  the 
rebellion,  but,  on  the  contrary,  served  His  Majesty  and  his  royal 
father  in  the  war  of  England,  in  which  service  he  was  taken 
prisoner,  and  afterwards  banished  by  the  usurpers  into  foreign 
parts,  where  he  and  his  brothers  betook  themselves  to  His  Majesty's 
service.  From  time  to  time,  and  more  particularly  when  the 
petitioner,  Charles,  served  in  St.  Gillaine,  His  Majesty  was  pleased 
to  send  his  orders  for  their  service,  whereupon  he  immediately 
obeyed  and  served  His  Majesty. 


1  Manuscript   Collections   relating  to      preserved  in  the  Record  Tower,  Dublin 
the  Act  of  Settlement,  Vol.  B.,  p.  418,      Castle. 


46 

Upon  the  Restoration  the  King  gave  him  his  Letters  to  be  re- 
stored to  his  estate.  This  was  denied  him,  but  the  Lord  Lieute- 
nant and  Council  ordered  him  one  year's  rent,  of  which,  how- 
ever, he  only  received  £20,  being  ordered  off  with  his  company  to 
Tangier,  and  so  would  not  attend  to  the  prosecution  thereof ;  he 
and  his  brothers  continuing  there  till  the  latter  end  of  August, 
1663.  And  there,  notwithstanding  the  petitioners  were  reduced, 
and  only  paid  off  until  the  4th  of  May  previous,  they  did  war,  and 
were  engaged  in  the  fight  against  the  Moors  on  the  24th  of  June 
following,  in  which  service  the  petitioners,  Charles  and  Roger,  were 
sore  wounded.1  When  they  returned  from  Africa,  the  time  for 
claiming  "Innocence"  before  the  Commissioners  of  the  Court  of 
Claims  was  expired,  but  Charles,  with  great  difficulty,  by  reason  of 
the  opposition  of  the  Protestant  Cavaliers  who  served  the  King  in 
Ireland  before  5th  of  June,  1649  (commonly  called  the  Forty-nine 
Officers),  and  who  claimed  to  have  the  county  of  Longford  as  part 
of  their  security  to  satisfy  their  arrears,  got  a  proviso  in  the  Act 
of  Explanation  to  be  restored.2 

Eleven  years  afterwards,  however,  he  was  still  wandering  about 
seeking  help  to  recover  his  estate,  as  appears  by  the  King's  Letter 
of  12th  of  January,  166y,  who  therein  laments  that  so  well  de- 
serving an  officer  had  as  yet  had  no  benefit  of  the  King's  Letters, 
nor  of  the  Act  of  Parliament,  and  begging  Ormond  and  the  Council 
to  exert  any  powers  they  might  be  invested  with  on  his  favour.3 

Another  of  these  Ensignmen  was  LordCastleconnell.  Lord  Wil- 
liam Bourke,  Baron  Castleconnell,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  hard 
by  the  falls  of  the  Shannon,  was  a  kinsman  of  the  Duke  of  Ormond. 
In  the  last  general  "  rising  out"  of  the  kingdom  at  the  Marquis  of 
Ormond's  commands  in  1650,  to  oppose  the  advance  of  Cromwell's 
forces,  Lord  Castleconnell,  for  his  birth  and  possessions,  was  elected 
by  the  gentry  of  the  county  of  Tipperary  to  command  their  levy.4 
When  the  common  calamitie  (as  he  says  himself  in  his  petition  to 
His  Majesty,  July  1,  1662),  disabled  him  to  give  other  demon- 
stration of  his  loyalty  to  His  Majesty  than  the  service  of  his  bare 
and  humble  person,  he  betook  himself  to  the  King's  standards  be- 
yond sea.  At  the  Restoration  he  returned,  and  waited  in  hopes  to 
be  restored,  but  His  Majesty  being  full  of  business  (as  Lord  Castle- 
connell suggests),  did  not  admit  the  consideration  of  his  suppliant's 
concerns.  He  was  named,  however,  in  the  King's  gracious  Decla- 
ration, among  those  to  be  restored  as  having  faithfully  served  under 

1  Collections  concerning  the  Act  of      xliii.,  p.  334. 
Settlement     Vol.    F     p.  265,   Record          4  Letter  of  the  gentry  of  the  county 

•  17  L^S  rh       TS     ,T  •  UN  of  TiPPerary  to  the  Marquis  of  Ormond, 

>  17  fc  18  Chas.  II.  (Insh),  chap.  2.,       Lord    Lieutenant    of    Ireland  ;    dated 

'Carte  Papers,  Bodleian  Library,  vol. 


the  King's  ensigns  beyond  the  seas.1  While  in  the  greatest  indi- 
gence (he  continues),  he  served  "  your  Royal  Majestic  five  or  six 
years  in  the  Netherlands,  trayling  a  pike  in  the  Duke  of  York's 
regiment  [i.  e.  as  a  common  soldier],  he  understood  no  miserie. 
But  now  he  has  runne  in  debt  for  food  and  raiment,  and  is  at  the 
end  of  his  creditt,  in  imminent  hazard  of  imprisonment  for  his 
debts,  and  unable  farther  to  subsist  if  your  Majestic  relieve  him 
not."2 

In  pity  of  his  fallen  fortunes,  and  in  the  difficulty  of  restoring 
him  to  his  estate,  the  Duke  of  Ormond  prevailed  with  the  King  to 
grant  him  a  temporary  premium  of  £1000  a  year.  On  3rd  April, 
1667,  in  thanking  Lord  Ormond  for  this  seasonable  relief,  he  opens 
his  sad  case  to  him,  baffled  as  he  finds  himself  even  of  this  allevia- 
tion by  the  delays  and  tricks  of  Sir  Daniel  Bellingharn  of  the 
treasury. 

"  My  Lord  (he  proceeds),  as  my  father,  who  pretended  ye  honour  of 
a  neer  relation  to  your  Grace  and  the  Dutchess's  family,  and  by  ye  means 
of  your  ancestor  Thomas  Earl  of  Ormond  was  bred  in  his  house,  who  re- 
covered his  estate  and  honour  for  him,  I  doe  take  the  presumption  to 
open  my  miserable  condition  to  your  Grace,  and  doe  expect  no  less  favour 
from  you,  having  ever  found  your  Grace's  willingness  to  look  on  persons 
of  my  condition  in  these  sad  times.  , 

44 1  am  confident  your  Grace  knows  how  faithfully  I  have  served  II.  M. 
and  your  Grace  at  home  and  abroad,  and  am  during  my  life  resolved  to 
dispose  of  myself  as  your  Grace  shall  think  fitt.  Therefore  I  humbly 
beg  your  Grace's  pardon  that  I  plainly  open  my  unfortunate  grievance; 
for,  on  my  word,  my  Lord,  I  was  forced,  as  Captain  Henesy  can  inform 
your  Grace,  to  pawne  the  very  clothes  I  had  for  £20,  to  bring  me  out  of 
Dublin,  and  ever  since  I  am  in  so  great  a  povertie  that  if  I  had  a  mind  to 
waite  on  your  Grace  I  am  not  able  to  appeare  for  want  of  cloathes — my 
wife  and  children  being  ready  to  forsake  house  and  home,  and  all  ye  little 
stocke  I  had  being  taken  for  rent.  Sir  Yalentine  Browne  and  Sir  Edward 
Fitzharris,  being  engaged  for  what  monies  brought  me  for  Ireland,  are 
like  to  suffer  for  me.  Therefore  being  not  able  to  waite  on  your  Grace 
to  present  my  humble  petition,  I  took  the  bouldness  to  write  these  un- 
couth lines,  begging  of  your  Grace  to  send  Sir  George  Lane  or  Secretary 
Page  to  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham,  to  cause  him  to  see  me  satisfied  my  arrears, 
if  your  Grace  shall  so  think  fitt,  and  your  Grace  ever  oblige  him  that  is 
"  Your  Grace's 

"  Most  obedient,  faithfull  servant, 

"  CA8TLECONNEL.3 

"  Castledrohid, 

"April  3,  1667." 

1  14  &  15  Chas.  II.  (Irish),  chap.  2,  to  inquire  into  the  frauds  practised  by 
King's  Declaration,  sec.  26.  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  and  the  Earl  of 

2  Carte  Papers,  vol.  xlii.,  p.  376.  Anglesey,    on  the  pensioners,    and   in 

3  Carte  Papers,  vol.  xxxv.,  p.  225. —  other  ways,  we  have  the  following  in  the 
"  A  Commission  having  been  appointed  Report   of  the   Commissioners: — Lord 


48 

So  great,  however,  were  the  numbers  of  the  distressed  nobility 
and  gentry  seeking  some  respite  from  starvation  by  the  Pension 
List,  that  before  1675  Lord  Castleconners  pension  was  reduced  to 
£100  a  year,  and  this  so  badly  paid,  that  at  Michaelmas,  1680,  it 
was  two  years  in  arrear,  together  with  pensions  of  like  amount  to 
Lord  Netterville,  Lord  Trimleston,  Lord  Upper  Ossory,  Lord  Dun- 
boyne,  Lord  Brittas,  Lord  Louth,  Sir  William  Talbot,  Lord  Roche's 
children,  and  others.1 

But  all  these,  and  others  on  the  pension  list,  were  "  English, 
as  the  term  was  understood  in  Ireland.  For  the  Irish— the  Far- 
rels,  the  Costellos,  theO'Neils,  the  M'Guires— there  were  no  pen- 
sions. What,  then,  must  be  their  resource?  First,  the  charity  of 
their  former  poor  tenants  and  dependants — for  the  poor  are  ever 
charitable ;  and  hospitality  and  sympathy  are  the  heavenly  virtues 
of  the  Irish.  Next,  some  occasional  relief  from  any  more  fortunate 
kinsman  or  friend  whose  estate  might  have  escaped  the  eye  of  the 


Anglesey,  they  say,  returned  warrants 
in  his  accounts  as  being  fully  paid, 
though  the  parties  that  gave  the  acquit- 
tance in  full  u  did  seldom  receive  more 
than  $di';  sometimes  not  above  half  of 
the  sums  conteynedin  such  acquittance*." 
"One  remarkable  instance  of  this 
kind  wee  have  mett  with  in  the  case  of 
the  Lord  Castle  Council,  whose  original 
Letter  under  his  own  hand  to  Sir  Daniel 
Bellingham  hath  beene  shewne  to  us, 
wherein  his  Lordship  desired  Sir  Daniel 
Bellingham  to  pay  the  bearer  thereof 
some  part  of  the  money  which  was  due 
to  his  Lop.  upon  a  former  warrant, 
and  offered  to  give  Sir  Daniel  Belling- 
ham double  assignments  or  Acquit- 
tances for  all  he  should  pay  according 
as  had  formerly  been  used  between 
them.  Whereupon  we  examined  Sir  Da- 
niel Bellingham,  who,  being  surprised 
with  the  sight  of  his  letter,  complained  : 
4  the  information  was  very  unbecoming 
a  gentleman.'  Yet  confessed  it  might 
be  true  that  he  had  received  a  moyety, 
but  said,  withal,  the  matter  was  not 
great,  nor  could  all  the  monies  paid  the 
Lord  Castle  Connell  amount  to  above 
£500.  This  being  an  offence  of  a  much 
more  haynous  nature  than  Sir  Daniel  B. 
did  seem  to  apprehend ;  upon  further 
search  into  it  we  discovered  a  deed, 
dated  the  9th  of  Nov.  1665,  under  the 
hand  and  seal  of  John  Pierson,  Esq., 
(now,  or  late,  the  Secretary,  as  we  are  in- 
formed of  the  Earl  of  Anglesey),  whereof 
the  original  is  ready  to  be  produced,  and 
the  copy  follows  in  these  words  :_ 


"  Whereas  the  Right  Honbl*.  William 
Lord  Castle  Connell  hath  intrusted  in 
my  hands  a  writing  under  his  hand, 
bearing  date  the  3d  of  Sept.,  1665,  ac- 
knowledging the  receipt  of  £1000  from 
the  Right  Honourable  Arthur  Earl  of 
Anglesey,  His  Majestie's  Vice-Trea- 
surer and  Treasurer  at  Warrs  in  Ire- 
land. Now  Know  All  Men  by  these 
presents,  That  I,  John  Pierson,  of  Dub- 
lin, Esq.,  do  hereby  bind  me,  my  heirs, 
Executors,  and  Administrators,  to  pay 
unto  his  Lordship  or  his  Assigns  upon 
the  receipt  of  the  sum  of  £1000  the  sum 
of  £500  sterling.  Witness  my  hand  and 
Seal,  this  9th  of  November,  1665. 

"JOHN  PIERSON.  [Seal.]" 
"  Witnesses  Present, 

Richard  Burgate, 

John  Bourke." 

After  giving  some  other  instances  the 
Commissioners  conclude — 

"  All  which  we  hereby  certifie  under 
our  hands  and  seals  this  20th  of  August, 
1669. 

"Buckingham. 
Orlando  Bridgman,  C.  J. 
Albemarl.  J.  Roberts. 

T.  Osborn.  Edmd.  Hyndman. 

Heneage  Finch.          Ed.  Walker. 

"  This  is  a  true  copy  of  the  original 
Certificate  which  was  read  to  His  Ma- 
jesty in  Councell,   22d   of  September. 
"Eo.  WALKER,  S.  Morland." 
Carte  Papers,  vol.  xxxvi.,  pp.  470,  480, 

1  Carte  Papers,  vol.  Hii.,  p.  225. 


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Cromwellian  soldiery,  and  the  still  more  dangerous  "  discoverer," 
some  Earl  of  Dover,  some  Colonel  Byron,  some  Sir  John  Stephens, 
some  Edward  Vernon,  of  Oxon,  who  has  had  the  poor  gentleman's 
estate  spied  like  a  prey,  and  has  obtained  His  Majesty's  letters  for 
a  grant  of  it  to  him,  as  his  lordship's  or  honour's  "discovery." 

The  last  resource — should  he  not  have  been  able  or  willing  to 
take  some  small  portion  of  his  ancient  lands  to  farm  under  the  new 
proprietor — is,  levies  from  the  Adventurer  or  Officer  in  possession  to 
support  the  old  proprietor,  his  wife  and  children.  This  was  effected 
by  a  regular  circular  notice,  describing  the  necessity  he  was  under 
of  marrying  a  daughter  or  sending  a  son  beyond  sea.  Or  some  of 
his  old  dependants,  Tories  of  the  neighbourhood,  sympathising  with 
their  former  master  and  his  distressed  family,  seized  the  usurping 
stranger's  cows,  or  boldly  robbed  upon  the  highway,  and  thus  pro- 
vided for  him,  and  for  themselves,  too. 

Thus,  on  the  29th  of  April,  1670,  we  find  the  Lord  Lieutenant 
(Lord  Berkeley)  and  Council  addressing  Viscount. Charlemont  at 
Castle-Caulfield,  in  the  county  of  Tyrone,  informing  him,  that  they 
are  given  to  understand  that  some  of  the  sept  of  the  O'Neils,  and 
others  in  that  province  [of  Ulster]  who  have  no  visible  means  of 
subsistence,  do  yet[  live  at  a  very  high  rate ;  some  of  their  sons 
being  in  rebellion ;  from  whom,  by  the  spoil  of  His  Majesty's  good 
subjects,  their  parents  have  their  support.  And  such,  and  so  great 
is  the  bouldness  of  divers  rebells  in  those  parts,  that  they  presume 
to  send  their  ticquetts  or  notes  to  some  of  His  Majesty's  good  sub- 
jects in  those  parts,  requiring  them  to  send  to  the  parents  or  friends 
of  those  rebels,  for  helpes  in  corn  or  cattle  towards  the  marriage  of 
their  daughters  or  other  relations — which  the  poor  people  dare  not 
oppose,  for  fear  of  having  their  houses  burnt,  and  other  mischiefs 
done  them  by  those  rebels.  And  for  as  much  as  these  offences  are 
of  a  transcendant  nature,  and  may  not  be  lightly  passed  over  with- 
out such  punishment  inflicted  on  the  offenders  as  may  be  exemplary, 
and  so  His  Majesty's  good  subjects  freed  from  such  apprehensions, 
Lord  Charlemont  is  to  examine  what  persons  have  presumed  to 
offend  in  any  of  those  kinds,  and  to  endeavour  the  apprehension  of 
such  offenders  and  their  parents,  to  the  end  that  His  Excellency 
and  the  Council  may  give  such  further  orders  as  the  case  shall  re- 
quire. And  so  His  Excellency  and  Council  bade  his  Lordship 
very  heartily  farewell.  From  the  Council  Chamber  in  Dublin,  29th 
April,  1670.1 

But  it  sometimes  happened  that  those  whose  humanity  had  got 
the  better  of  their  national  principles  were  dealt  with  by  the  State 
as  the  offenders.  Thus,  on  the  27th  May,  1675,  Symon  Bichard- 

i  See  the  original,  Domestic  Corre-      preserved  in  the  Record  Tower,  Dublin 
spondence,  1668.  (Council  Book),  p.  72,       Castle. 


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son,  Francis  Kichardson,  Henry  Richardson,  and  Francis  Lucas, 
Esquires  (probably  of  the  family  of  the  Richardsons,  then  and  now 
settled  at  Rich  Hili,  in  the  county  of  Armagh),  were  summoned  to 
appear  before  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Council  in  person,  on  the 
7 tli  June,  to  answer  a  complaint  preferred  against  them  for  har- 
bouring some  Tories  that  lately  robbed  Mr.  King.  And  there  is  a 
little  postscript,  of  some  significance,  to  Sir  John  Davys'  summons, 
to  the  following  effect :— "It  is  also  His  Excellency's  pleasure  that 
Mr.  Francis  Lucas's  wife,  together  with  Mrs.  [Miss]  Mary  Brookes, 
do  appear  as  above/'  * 

For  it  will  appear,  when  we  come  to  the  history  of  Redmond 
O'Hanlon,  that  the  sympathies  of  the  gentler  sex  were  sometimes 
engaged  on  behalf  of  the  Tories.  And  we  shall  find  no  less  a  per- 
son than  Deborah  Annesley,  the  daughter  of  Henry  Jones,  Bishop 
of  Meath  (formerly  Scout  Master  General  to  Cromwell),  holding 
correspondence  with  that  gallant  outlaw,  and  concerting  measures 
with  him  to  preserve  his  life.  All  kinds  of  unworthy  motives  were 
of  course  attributed  to  any  gentlemen  who  complied  with  these 
poor  Tories ;  but  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  they  felt  for  their 
sad  condition,  and  remembered  that  they  themselves  were  in  pos- 
session of  their  lands  and  livings. 

Ulster  was  their  chief  seat.  The  passing  of  the  Act  of  Expla- 
nation on  24th  December,  1665,  which  shut  the  door  of  hope  on 
almost  all  the  Irish,  caused  the  deepest  discontent  and  despair — 
particularly  amongst  the  native  gentry  of  Ulster,  who  continued  to 
claim  the  relics  of  their  estates  left  with  them  by  King  James  the 
First  after  the  plantation  of  Ulster,  which  they  had  still  hoped  to 
be  established  in  by  the  Court  of  Claims.3  The  war  with  the 
Dutch  occurring  at  this  time  inspired  them  with  hopes,  and  from 
1666  to  1690  the  Government  and  the  British  Planters  were  kept 
in  continual  alarm. 

For,  contrary  to  the  received  opinion,  Ulster  continued  to  be 
the  dangerous  part  of  Ireland  till  after  the  War  of  the  Revolution, 
when  it  was  nearly  colonized  anew  by  the  Scotch  suttlers  and  camp- 
followers  of  King  William's  foreign  forces.  Eighty  thousand  small 
Scotch  Adventurers  came  in  between  1690  and  1698,  into  different 
parts  of  Ireland,  but  chiefly  into  Ulster. 

I  Domestic      Correspondence,    1668.  lious  General  O'Neil,  and  brought  their 

(Council  Book),  p.  72,  Record  Tower,  Regiments  to  Ormond,  viz. :  the  Lord 

Dubl.n  Castle.  Iveagh,  Colonel  O'Neil,    of  the  Fews, 

There  was  not  above  three  or  four  Colonel  M'Mahon,  and  Colonel  O'Reilly. 

Roman  Catholics  of  Ulster  restored  to  None  of  these,  nor  anv  under  their  Com- 

their  Estates,  which  were  of  the  Marquis  mand,  got  one  foot  of  their  estates,  and 

f  Antrim,  Sir  Henry  O'Neil,  M'Gennis,  yet  the  family  of  the  Cootes  were  ad- 

Tvv  M™  T-°re',     u     ' ^yet'  when  Owen  vanced  to  great  honours."     Collections 

A   S1  t£E*?  the  JCootes  in   Derry  by  friends,  some  of  us  eye-witnesses  of 

19],  to  y«  destruction  of  the  the  warr  and  rebellion  in  Ireland  since 

King  »  interest  in  Ireland  ;  at  that  very  1641.     Preserved    amongst   the   Carte 

time  four  Colonels  quitted  their  rebel-  Papers,  vol.  Ixiv    p  431 


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On  March  the  4th,  166J,  writes  an  intelligencer  of  Sir  Richard 
Kennedy,  one  of  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer:  "  In  Londonderry 
and  Tyrone  I  had  the  company  of  several  of  the  Irish  gentry,  whom 
I  found  in  general  unsatisfied  with  the  passing  of  the  Bill  [of  Ex- 
planation], and  espetially  the  O'Neils  &  O'Reillys,  M'Mahons  & 
M'Guires,  and  the  O'Donnels  and  O'Kanes  ....  and  there  are 
a  considerable  number  of  young  gentlemen  of  those  families  much 
in  despair,  and  in  their  discourse  very  bitter  against  the  proceedings 
of  this  Parliament ": 

At  this  period  "the  condition  of  the  most  part  of  Ulster"  (to  use 
the  words  of  Sir  George  Acheson,  ancestor  of  the  present  Viscount 
Gosford)  "  was  such  as  none  dare  travel  or  inhabit  there,  but  as  in 
an  enemys country:  no  trade,  no  work,  no  improvement;"  all  which 
he  attributes  to  the  Tories.  They  are  against  all  industry  and  im- 
provement, as  tending  to  bring  in  British  to  extrude  them.  So  that 
it  is  now  held  a  point  of  gallantry  to  turn  Tories,  and  all  their  dis- 
courses and  songs  are  in  their  praise,  and  they  accounted  heroes. 
The  embarassed  English  gentry  have  them  for  dependents  and  pur- 
veyors— the  common  English,  living  abroad  in  detached  houses, 
fear  them. 

Formerly  they  robbed,  and  went  upon  their  keeping ;  now  they 
are  in  armed  bands,2  and  they  force  most  part  of  the  British  to  pay 
them  yearly  contributions,  "  in  paying  of  which,  if  they  be  negligent 
or  not  punctual,  they  presently  come,  rob  their  houses,  drive  away 
their  cattle  into  their  retreats ;  that  is,  those  mountainous  and  boggy 
and  coarse  lands  inhabited  only  by  natives,  whereof  there  are  many  in 
Ulster,  and  here  they  detain  them  till  they  pay  much  more  than 
was  at  first  demanded.  This  new  way  of  Torying  was  first  brought 
in  among  them,  and  shown  them  by  such  as  had  been  abroad  to 
f brraigne  warrs,  .  .  .  the  like  practices  being  too  much  used  abroad, 
and  permitted  the  soldiery  by  military  connivance. 

One  great  encouragement  of  Toryism  was,  "the  foolish  ancient 

J  "  N.  D."  to  Sir  Richard  Kennedy.  diocess  of  Raphoe,  in  the  Barony  of 

Carte  Papers,  vol.  xxxiv.,  p.  390.  Kilmacrenan. 

2  In  a  long  list  of  "  Suspected  men  in  Edmd.  Oge  O'Donell,  a  constant  Tory, 

Ulster"  at  this  time,  differently  de-  and  abuses  ye  country,  and  still  upon 

scribed,  appear  the  following : —  his  guard,  with  a  company  of  idlers  in 

C°.  Donegall : —  ye.  barony  of  Boylagh  and  Balagh. 


Edmd.  McSwyne, 
Neile  McSwyne, 
Donaghy  MCS  wyne. 


Brothers  to  Coll.        Owen  Groome  O'Boyle,  a  murtherer,  of 
Mullmury  McSwyne  Rosses  [a  district],  in  ye  same  barony, 

who   liveth  beyond       Farmanagh:— 


Doe  Castle,   comon  Oughie  O'Home,  lately  come  out  of 

cosherers,  and  goes  up  and  downe  armed  Spain,  and  another  brother  of  his. 

with  swords,  fowling  peeces  and  dogs.  Antrim  : — 

Noe  constable  dares  execute  any  war-  HuSh  O'Dornan,  Chief  of  y    tnars  of 

rant  against  ym  in  those  parts.  Glan welch,  in  ye  Barony  of  Carry,  and 

Mullmury  McSwyne,  son  to  Coll.    Mul-  the  rest  of  y"  friers  there — Carte  Pa^ 

murry  McSwyne.  Pers>  Bodleian  Library,  vol.  xxxiv.,  p. 

Shane    O'Deritry,    Vicar-Gene.    for    ye  290- 


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way  of  hospitality  to  receive  and  give  food  to  all  comers  of  their 
nation,  not  inquiring  the  cause  of  their  coming  or  business;  so  that 
they  continue  wandering  about  from  house  to  house  as  long  as  they 
will  .  .  .  alledging  themselves  Innocents,  but  necessitated  so  to 
do,  having  not  wherewithal  to  pay  the  fees  of  their  tryall  and  acquit- 
tal'" [in  the  Court  of  Claims]. 

"  One  design  of  these  men  is,"  says  Sir  George  Acheson,  « that 
thus  terrifying  and  discouraging  theBrittish,  having  nothing  certain, 
but  all  at'their  mercy,  they  will  induce  them  by  degrees  to  leave 
those  places  of  danger  and  recede  into  those  more  secure,  which  they 
daily  begin  now  to  do;  and  so  the  lands  will  be  laid  waste,  none 
else  daring  to  take  them,  whereby  the  natives  will  rent  them  at  such 
mean  values  as  they  please,  and  thereby  embody  themselves,  and 
grow  numerous  and  opulent." 

Sir  George  Acheson's  remedy  is  a  truly  military  kind  of  justice. 
An  officer  with  a  "volant  party"  of  troopers  is  to  be  established, 
to  be  at  liberty  to  call  upon  any  man  to  stand  in  the  King's  name, 
and  give  an  account  of  himself,  and  to  shoot  him  if  he  don't;  if  he 
does,  to  try  him  by  a  jury  on  the  spot,  and,  if  guilty,  "  to  proceed 
to  sentence  and  (after  Christian  preparation)  to  hang  him."  In 
which  circumstances  many  a  man  would  rather  stand  his  chance  of 
a  volley  from  the  troopers  than  a  verdict  of  the  jurors.1 

It  is  quite  plain,  however,  from  the  various  engagements  which 
the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Council  entered  into  with  Tories  all  over 
the  kingdom — for  killing  each  other,  or  for  abjuring  the  realm,  or 
for  pardon  and  liberty  to  stay  in  it  on  condition  of  driving  out  other 
Tories  within  a  given  time — that  Sir  George  Acheson's  scheme  had 
every  recommendation  but  practicability.  The  Tories  were,  in  fact, 
too  numerous,  and  the  forces  at  the  disposal  of  the  Government  too 
few  to  cope  with  them  in  the  wild  and  difficult  countries  then  fre- 
quent in  Ireland. 

It  was  very  rarely  that  they  were  taken  in  any  large  numbers  by 
means  of  the  many  ambushes  laid  for  them.  However,  in  January, 
1666,  a  dozen  Tories  were  "happened  upon"  (by  some  great  good 
luck)  in  Leinster.  A  special  commission  was  issued  to  try  them. 
The  Duke  of  Ormond  wrote  upon  that  occasion  to  Lord  Orrery, 
who  had  entered  into  some  engagement  with  an  Irish  gentleman  in 
Munster  (of  course  nameless)  to  bring  in  some  Tories  of  that  pro- 
vince, dead  or  alive,— 

44 1  received  your  Lordship's  of  the  12th  [January,  I66f]  when  I 
was  only  returned  from  taking  a  week's  divertisement  of  hunting  and 

'"The    Tories ;    of  Ulster,"   by   Sir       Carte   Papers,    Bodleian  Library,  vol. 
George  Acheson,  Knt.  and  Bart.  [1667].       xlv.,  p.  309. 


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hawking  at  Maddenstown  [beside  the  Curragh  of  Kildare].  I  hope,  by  the 
diligence  of  Captain  Martin,  Sir  Theophilus  Jones's  Officer,  who  hath  taken 
about  a  dozen  Tories,  that  the  knot  of  them  on  Leinster  and  upon  the  borders 
of  Ulster  is  pretty  well  broken,  or  will  be  by  the  time  Sir  Jerome  Alex- 
ander (Second  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas),  who  has  a  speciall  commis- 
sion to  try,  and  a  very  special  inclination  to  hang  them,  shall  have  done 
with  them.  If  the  Irish  gentleman  shall  perform  his  undertaking  to  your 
Lordship,  your's  to  him  shall  in  no  point  fail."1 

This  was  a  spy  of  Orrery's,  who  undertook  to  proceed  to  Con- 
naught  and  fetch  thence  Colonel  Dudley  Costello's  head,  provided 
he  were  furnished  with  a  horse  and  travelling  arms,  and  properly  re- 
warded. 

Lord  Dillon  had  been  specially  charged  by  Ormond  to  subdue 
him  and  his  band,  but  he  defied  all  their  attempts.  And  Orrery 
offered  this  Irish  gentleman  to  Lord  Kingston,  President  of  Con- 
naught,  who  was  then  enjoying  his  Christmas  at  his  seat  of  Mitchels- 
town  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Tipperary,  adjacent  to  Cork,  to  help  in 
the  service.  Lord  Kingston  said  of  this  Munster  spy  of  Orrery's,  that 
he  looked  like  a  man  fitted  for  such  designs,  and  if  he  had  no  more 
than  his  aspect  to  judge  by,  he  should  not  think  the  difference  great 
whether  he  brought  in  Costello's  head,  or  Costello  his.2 

But  the  ordinary  practice  was  to  employ  some  of  their  own  band. 
Thus  Lord  Dillon  employed  two  Tories,  named  M'Donough  Dowd 
and  Taltagh  Dowd,  two  brothers,  to  do  service  on  a  band  of  their 
brother  Tories  in  the  Baronies  of  Costello  and  Gallen,  in  the  County 
of  Mayo  ;  and  in  consideration  of  the  service  they  had  thus  effected, 
and  while  out  on  their  campaign  doing  more,  Lord  Dillon's  tenants 
agreed  to  a  levy  of  one  shilling  per  quarter  of  inhabited  land  within 
the  Baronies,  as  they  (the  Dowds)  were  not  in  a  condition  otherwise 
to  subsist,  or  to  prosecute  them  further.3 

Lord  Charlemont,  in  like  manner,  in  October,  1668,  by  direction 
from  the  Earl  of  Ossory,  then  Lord  Deputy,  and  the  Council,  was  di- 
rected to  send  for  "two  Ulster  Tories,  namely,  NeileOge  O'Neile  and 
Con  his  brother,  sonnes  unto  Tirlagh  M 'Shane  Oge  O'Neile,"4  and 
if,  upon  conference  with  them  at  Castle  Caulfield  (his  residence  in  the 
county  of  Tyrone),  he  should  find  that  they  might  be  willing,  on  pro- 
mise of  their  own  pardon,  to  do  service  against  the  Tories  that  were 
abroad  upon  their  keeping,  the  Board  authorized  him  to  give  them 
protection  for  such  time  as  he  thought  necessary,  not  exceeding  six 
months.5 

But  they,  either  from  inability  or  unwillingness,  seem  to  have 
failed  in  their  undertaking,  and  to  have  forfeited  their  protection ;  for 

1  Carte  Papers,  vol.  xlviii.,  p.  52e.  O'Neile  the  younger. 

2  Carte  Papers,  vol.  xxxv.  5  Council    Book.      Domestic    Corre- 

3  Carte  Papers,  vol.  xxxiv.,  p.  294s.  spondence,1668,  fol.  44,  Record  Tower, 

4  This  only  means  Terence,  son  of  John  Dublin  Castle. 


54 

ust  eighteen  months  afterwards  (May  17,  1670),  Lord  Berkeley 
( Lord  Lieutenant)  and  the  Council  are  again  in  communication  with 
Lord  Charlemont.  Considering  (they  say)  how  the  provinces  of  Ul- 
ster  and  Connaught  are  now  infested  by  Tories ;  and  that  it  appeared 
from  Captain  Golborne's  letter  to  Lord  Charlemont  that  Con  O'Neile 
offered  to  <*ive  security  to  clear  both  provinces  of  all  the  lories,  and 
cither  to  kill,  take,  or  drive  them  out  of  the  kingdom ;  and  as  Lord 
Charlemont  had  written  thatCon  and  his  brother  Neile  were  the  most 
likely  persons  to  perform  what  they  promised,  if  they  might  have 
their  pardon,  and  remain  still  in  the  realm,  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and 
Council  authorized  him  to  engage  with  them  on  those  terms- 
provided  that,  before  the  1st  of  August  following,  they  cleared 
Ulster  and  Connaught  of  all  the  Tories.1 

For  some  reason  or  other  this  negociation  did  not  succeed — for 
their  father  endeavoured,  in  his  conference  with  Lord  Charlemont,  to 
stipulate  for  the  return  from  exile  of  them  and  his  nephews,  as  appears 
from  this— that  on  the  1st  June,  1670,  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and 
Council  apprise  Lord  Charlemont  that  "they  had  considered  of  the 
proposal  presented  by  him  at  the  Board,  from  Captain  Tirlagh 
M'Shane  Oge  O'Neile,  in  behalf  of  his  three  sons,  Neile  O'Neile,  Con 
O'Neile,  and  Owen  O'Neile,  and  his  two  nephews,  Brian  O'Cahan 
and  Shane  O'Neile;  and  they  conceived  that  the  same  Captain 
Tirlagh  M'Shane  O'Neile,  Oge  O'Neile,  and  his  friends  and  relations 
might,  if  they  pleased,  without  the  presence  or  assistance  of  his 
said  sons  and  nephews  (whom  he  desired  should  be  recalled  from 
their  alledged  banishment), performe  the  services  which  he  proposed. 
They  therefore  authorize  Lord  Charlemont  to  say,  that  if  he  shall, 
before  the  1st  August  [1670],  kill,  take,  or  drive  out  the  Tories, 
then  they  will  allow  his  sons  and  nephews  to  return — they  giving 
good  securities  for  their  peaceable  conduct.2 

At  this  time  Lord  Charlemont  was  Governor  of  Ulster,  and  it 
was  his  duty  to  pay  the  head  money  offered  by  proclamation  for 
the  heads  of  Tories  hunted  and  slain.  Thus,  on  29th  August,  1670, 
the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Council,  by  letters  of  concordatum,  repay 
twenty  pounds  paid  by  him  to  Captain  James  Stuart  and  his  party, 
on  the  certificate  of  Michael  Cole,  Esq.,  Sheriff  of  the  county  of 
Fermanagh,  that  the  said  captain  and  his  party,  on  the  4th  of  July 
previous,  at  Coolaghtie,  in  the  said  county,  killed  and  beheaded 
one  Owen  M'Guire,  a  notorious  rebel  and  Tory  (whose  name  was 
inserted  in  the  proclamation  of  the  Council  Board  of  1st  June, 
1670),  and  had  brought  his  head  to  the  Sheriff,  which  was  put  up 
at  Inniskillen,  pursuant  to  the  proclamation.3  On  25th  November, 

'  Council    Book.      Domestic    Corre-          'Records    of    the    Vice-Treasurer's 
**>»  f0'-  75-  office,     now  preserved    in   the   Custom 

'  Ibid.,  fol.  75.  House  Buildings,  Dublin. 


55 

1670,  he  was  repaid  a  like  sum,  paid  to  Bernard  Butterfield,  Esq., 
on  the  certificate  of  Alexander  M'Causland,  Esq.,  Sheriff  of  the 
county  of  Tyrone,  who,  on  the  18th  of  July  previous,  went  forth 
with  a  party  in  pursuit  of  several  Tories,  and  at  a  place  called  Evise- 
godan,  in  the  said  county,  did  there  kill  and  behead  one  Patrick 
O'Sonnaghan,  a  notorious  rebel  and  Tory,  included  in  the  same 
proclamation.1  Among  many  similar  letters  of  concordatum,  for 
repayments  of  head  money  to  Lord  Charlemont,  there  is  one  in  fa- 
vour of  Mulmurry  O'Hossa,  dated  25th  November,  1670. 

Mulmurry  O'Hossa  describes  himself,  in  his  petition  to  the  Lord 
Lieutenant  and  Council,  as  once  a  lieutenant  in  the  regiment  of 
H.  R.  H.  the  Duke  of  York,  in  Flanders;  and  states  that,  in  pursu- 
ance of  the  late  proclamation,  and  by  the  special  encouragement  of 
William  Archdall,  Esq.,  one  of  His  Majesty's  Justices  of  the  Peace 
for  the  county  of  Fermanagh,  he  hath  now  of  late  pursued  and  slain 
two  notorious  Tories,  called  Daniel  O'Roarty  and  James  O'Lough- 
nane,  who,  by  their  frequent  robberies,  did  very  much  infest  and 
molest  His  Majesty's  good  subjects  in  Fermanagh  and  the  several 
adjacent  counties;  "the  heads  of  which  said  Tories  your  Petitioner 
brought,  in  open  court,  before  the  Justices  of  the  Peace,  at  a  Ge- 
neral Sessions  held  at  Inniskillen,  and  the  said  heads,  set  up,  are 
still  remaining  in  the  said  county  town  of  Inniskillen.  Since  which 
time  the  brother  of  the  said  Roarty  is  run  out  into  the  company  of 
Edmund  M'Gillaspie,  Hugh  M'Nelagh,  and  other  notorious  Toryes 
in  the  proclamation,  and  came  several  times  to  kill  your  Petitioner." 

Unable  to  get  any  satisfaction  for  this  service  from  Lord  Char- 
lemont, Governor  of  Ulster,  "in  regard  the  said  Tories,  killed  by 
your  petitioner,  were  not  inserted  in  the  proclamation  (though  they 
were  of  the  company  of  Owen  M'Guire  and  John  Magragh,  who 
were  proclaimed  Tories,  and  the  next  day  after  pursued  and  killed 
by  Captain  Hassett  and  Captain  Stuart),"  Mulmurry  O'Hossa  had 
been  obliged  to  make  a  journey  purposely  to  this  city  of  Dublin, 
where  he  then  attended  at  great  expense,  above  his  weak  ability, 
seeking  the  reward  of  twenty  pounds  per  head.  He  supports  his 
claim  on  the  certificates  of  Michael  Cole,  Esq.,  the  Sheriff,  and  the 
Justices.  The  latter  runs  thus: — 

"  Co.  Fermanagh,  \   At  a  General  Sessions  of  the  Peace,  held  at  Inniskil- 
len, for  the  said  county  of  Fermanagh,  the  5th  of 
to  wit.  }       July,  1670. 

"  These  are  to  certifie  that  one  Mulmurry  O'Hossa,  Gent.,  att  the  said 
Sessions,  in  open  court,  brought  in  before  William  Archdall,  Abraham 
Creightoune,  Gerald  Irvine,  and  John  Creightoune,  Esqs.,  four  of  His 
Majesty's  Justices  of  the  Peace  in  the  said  county,  the  heads  of  Donel 
O'Kortie,  late  of  the  county  of  Donegal,  yeoman,  and  James  O'Loughnane, 

1  Records  of  the  Vice-Treasurer's  Office,  Custom  House  Buildings,  Dublin. 


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late  of  the  county  of  Tirone,  yeoman;  which  said  persons  have  been  made 
appear  unto  us,  by  oath  of  several  persons,  to  be  notorious  rebels,  and 
re  been  guilty  of  several  robberies  and  other  misdemeanours,  and  were 
killed  by  the  aforesaid  Mulmurry  O'Hossa,  Gent.,  at  Stranadarrow,  in  the 
county  of  Fermanagh  aforesaid,  the  5th  July,  1670.. 

WILLIAM  ARCHDALL. 

ABRA.  CREIGHTOUNE. 

GER.  IRVINE. 

JOHN  CREIGHTOUNE."  l 

From  the  Sheriff's  certificate,  it  appears  that  these  two  Tories 
were  killed  on  the  5th  of  July  ;  so  that  Lieutenant  Mulmurry 
O'Hossa  must  have  hastened  to  present  their  heads^  all  dripping 
with  fresh  gore,  to  the  magistrates  assembled  at  Sessions  in  Innis- 
killen— a  dainty  dish,  truly,  to  set  before  a  Bench.  It  is  satisfac- 
fiictory  to  know  that  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Council  recognized 
Lieutenant  Mulmurry  O'Hossa's  zeal  and  intelligence,  and  that  he 
was  not  disappointed  of  his  forty  pieces  of  silver  (or  gold). 

Such  engagements  as  these  were  evidently  of  little  avail ;  for 
we  find  Lord  Charlemont  and  others  constantly  employed  by  the 
Lord  Lieutenant  and  Council  in  treaties  with  Tories  to  abjure  the 
realm.  On  the  18th  of  March,  16fg,  he  was  instructed  to  par- 
ley with  Edmund  M'Gillespieand  Redmond  M'Knogher  M'Quoid, 
and  to  take  security  that  they  will  depart  the  kingdom  within  three 
months,  never  to  return.2  On  the  28th  of  the  same  month  he  was 
authorized  to  make  a  similar  arrangement  with  Rory  M'Donnel, 
Owen  Duff  M'Donnel,  Fardorogh  M'Donnel,  Toole  M'Donnel, 
and  Shane  M'Gragh. 

On  July  1st  (same  year),  Sir  Edward  Massie,  at  Abbey  Leix, 
one  of  the  Privy  Council,  had  license  to  treat  with  Thomas  Butler, 
Piers  Fitzharris,  Dominic  Dogue,  James  Sinnot,  and  James 
O'Hagan,  for  giving  security  to  depart  the  kingdom,  and  to  have 
protection  in  the  meantime.3 

For  these  Tories  were  so  desperate,  and  had  so  much  of  the  love 
and  admiration  of  their  countrymen,  that  it  was  well  to  be  rid  of 
them  any  way.  A  congregation  at  Mass  in  the  county  of  Kerry 
rescued  a  Tory.  The  Duke  of  Ormond  (March  23,  166f )  there- 
upon wrote  to  Lord  Ossory,  President  of  Munster,  that  the  priest 
should  be  immediately  arrested,  and  any  persons  of  more  than  com- 
mon quality  that  looked  on.4  Six  years  afterwards,  the  inhabitants 
of  Macroom,  in  that  part  of  the  county  of  Cork  which  borders  upon 
Kerry,  having  seized,  arrested,  brought  to  trial,  and  convicted 
some  Tories  that  had  stood  upon  their  keeping,  several  of  their  con- 

1  Records    of  the    Vice- Treasurer's  Record  Tower,  Dublin  Castle. 

Office,  Custom  House  Buildings,  Dublin.  3  Ibid,  folio  79. 

*  C(ra?£]LB?0h'  D°me8tic  Correspon-  «  Carte   Papers,    Bodleian    Library, 

dence,  1668,  folio  69,  preserved  in  the  vol.  xlviii.  p.  63. 


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federates  and  relations  within  six  days  after  their  comrades  were 
hanged,  out  of  their  malice  and  revenge  burned  the  town,  so  that 
the  inhabitants  lost  all  their  goods  in  the  fire,  to  the  value  of  about 
£3000 ;  and  the  four  Protestant  archbishops  were  directed  to  set 
on  foot  a  charitable  subscription  for  the  injured  inhabitants  of  Ma- 
croom.1 

It  was  against  his  will,  however,  that  the  Duke  of  Ormond 
entered  into  agreements  with  the  Tories  for  abjuring  the  realm;  for 
to  give  them  leave  after  all  their  robberies  and  depredations  to  quit 
the  kingdom  was,  he  feared,  to  encourage  the  trade,  and  raise  more 
than  should  be  sent  away. 

"  For  who  "  (he  asks)  "  in  the  condition  many  of  the  Irish  are  would 
not,  by  robbing  and  spoyling,  gather  a  summe  of  money  to  transport  him- 
self beyond  sea,  to  try  to  get  a  fortune  of  which  he  despairs  in  his  own 
country;  especially  not  being  restrained  by  any  principles  of  conscience 
or  of  kindness  to  those  they  destroy  ;  and  perhaps  being  told  by  their  spi- 
ritual rnisleaders  that  the  course  they  are  in  is  little  worse  than  spoyling 
the  Egyptians  was  in  the  Israelites?  The  course  your  Lordship  has 
taken  [he  concludes  this  letter,  to  Colonel  Mark  Trevor,  Lord  Dungannon, 
Governor  of  Ulster]  of  setting  distrust  and  enmity  betwixt  themselves  is 
certainly  the  best,  and  ought  not  only  to  be  pursued  but  encouraged,  by 
giving  such  as  perform  their  undertakings  faithfully  some  reward  beyond 
pardon."2 

Chief  among  the  Tories  of  the  counties  of  Down,  Armagh,  and 
Tyrone,  was  Redmond  O'Hanlon.  His  principal  haunt  was  the 
Fews  Mountains,  overhanging  Newry.  Thence  his  retreat  was 
easy  to  the  neighbouring  mountains  of  Mourne,  on  the  north  side 
of  the  bay  of  Carlingford.  For  more  than  ten  years  he  kept  three 
counties  in  subjection ;  so  that  none  dare  travel  without  convoy,  or 
his  pass.  The  other  Tories  were  under  him.  One  of  them,  Cormac 
O'Murphy,  weary  to  be  under  Redmond  O'Hanlon,  set  up  for  him- 
self, became  a  ringleader  of  a  company  of  his  own,  and  plundered 
three  Scotchmen,  who  were  tributaries  to  Redmond  O'Hanlon,  it 
being  a  custom  for  the  country  people  in  Ireland  to  pay  the  Tories 
for  a  pass  to  go  unmolested.  These  Scotchmen  complained  to  Red- 
mond O'Hanlon,  who  trepanned  O'Murphy,  under  pretence  he 
wanted  his  aid  to  take  a  booty.  When  he  appeared,  he  ordered  his 
men  to  disarm  him,  and  send  him  to  the  Scotchmen,  with  a  guard 
of  fourteen  Tories,  and  a  Mittimus  from  Redmond  to  the  next  magis- 
trate. But  the  Scotchmen  compounded  the  matter  with  Cormac 
O'Murphy  for  £20,  to  be  paid  the  week  following. 

Cormac,  being  thus  set  at  liberty,  got  new  arms,  and  sent  a  chal- 
lenge to  Redmond  O'Hanlon,  who  refused  to  appear,  but  swore  he 
would  be  revenged  on  Cormac.  Edmund  Murphy,  parish  priest  of 

1  Council  Book.   Domestic  Correspon-       Dublin  Castle, 
dence,  1668,  fol.  183,   Record   Tower,  2  Carte  Papers,  vol.  xlix.,  last  page. 


58 

Killew,  titular  Chanter  of  Armagh,  living  in  the  Fews,  at  the  in- 
stigation of  Captain  Butler,  who  lay  at  Dundalk,  at  the  foot  of  the 
mountains,  with  his  company  of  foot  (charged  by  the  Duke  of  Or- 
raond  with  the  following  of  Redmond  O'Hanlon)  plotted  with  Cor- 
raac  O'Murphy  to  seize  O'Hanlon.  The  first  attempt  was  made 
by  occasion  of  Cormac  O'Murphy 's  surprising  David  Mulligan,  of 
Lecorry,  in  the  county  of  Armagh,  and  bidding  him  stand  and 
deliver  ;  whereupon  David  Mulligan  showed  a  pass  from  Redmond 
O'Hanlon,  stating  that  David  Mulligan  and  his  father-in-law  had 
often  sheltered  him  when  hard  hunted  by  Sir  Hans  Hamilton.  But 
Cormac,  to  enrage  Redmond  O'Hanlon,  and  show  his  contempt  of 
him,  refused  to  acknowledge  his  pass,  and  robbed  David  Mulligan, 
saying  that  he  would  only  restore  him  the  goods  on  Redmond's  restor- 
ing him  his  arms.  A  meeting  was  appointedfor  the  purpose  of  mutual 
restoration,  at  which  Olianlon  was  to  be  seized.  The  priest  was 
to  provide  brandy  and  hot  waters  (not  hot  water),  and  Captain 
Butler,  soldiers ;  but  this  failed  by  David  Mulligan's  seizing  Patrick 
Murphy,  Cormac  Murphy's  "  brother"  and  "  kindred  "  under  the 
Tory  Acts,  who,  by  this  means,  got  back  his  goods ;  and  thereupon 
Redmond  O'Hanlon,  finding  that  his  friend  had  recovered  his  goods, 
refused  to  attend  the  meeting,  and  sent  word  to  Cormac  that  he 
would  not  return  him  his  arms.  Another  plot  between  the  priest 
and  Cormac  O'Murphy  for  his  capture  was  arranged  on  a  similar 
plan.  Cormac  on  one  occasion  robbed  a  cousin  of  O'Hanlon's,who, 
boasting  that  he  had  the  protection  of  the  chief  rebels  of  the  king- 
dom, and  particularly  one  of  O'Hanlon's  passes,  engaged  to  take 
some  trader's  goods  under  his  charge  to  Dublin.  Cormac  was  sure 
that  Redmond  O'Hanlon  and  his  men  would  resent  this  outrage 
upon  his  authority,  and  would  soon  be  after  him.  So  he  and  the 
priest  arranged  another  ambush,  and  informed  Captain  Butler,  who 
had  his  men  at  hand ;  but  Redmond  disappointed  these  and  a  thou- 
sand other  schemes. 

For  these  are  only  the  contrivances  (detailed  by  himself )  of  one 
priest  whom  he  had  outraged  by  threatening  that  he  would  make 
any  one  that  went  to  listen  to  his  preachings  against  him  pay  for 
the  first  offence,  one  cow  ;  for  the  second,  two  cows  (which  he  put 
in  execution  against  one  of  Edmund  Murphy's  parishioners);  and 
for  the  third,  death.1 

Yet  this  man  was  a  scholar  and  a  gentleman,  which  is  the  reason 
Sir  Francis  Brewster  assigns  for  his  not  being  taken  after  commit- 
ting so  many  robberies  and  murders  as  he  debits  him  with. 

His  exploits  appeared  in  the  French  Gazettes ;  and  by  them  he 

1  The  above  extracts  are  taken  from  Murphy,    Parish    Priest,    and    Titular 

Present  State  of  Ireland,  but  more  Chanter  of  Armagh,  and  one  of  the  first 

particularly  of  Ulster,  represented  to  discoverers   of  the  Irish  Plot,"  Folio, 

the  People   of    England,    by  Edmund  London,  1681. 


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was  called  "  Count  O'Hanlon,"1  which  meant  only  that  he  was  of 
gentle  blood,  and  the  son  of  an  estated  gentleman  who  had  lost  his 
property  through  the  Court  of  Claims.  2 

But  Redmond's  career,  at  the  end  of  the  year  1680,  was  drawing 
to  a  close. 

In  addition  to  the  curious  and  voluminous  details  given  by 
Father  Murphy  (of  which  what  is  given  above  is  only  a  small 
fragment)  we  are  accidentally  in  possession  of  the  more  dangerous 
practices  of  a  Protestant  Bishop  against  poor  Redmond. 

The  year  1680  was  the  height  of  the  calamitous  and  dis- 
graceful popular  frenzy  in  England  of  the  sham  Popish  Plot.  It 
became  necessary,  to  support  the  drama  performing  in  England,  to 
show  that  the  Irish  Papists  were  moving  too,  which  could  be  easily 
done  as  regarded  theTories,  who  would  no  doubt  have  accepted  not 
merely  French,  but  the  devil's  aid,  to  reinvest  them  with  their  be- 
loved homes  and  lands.  But  it  should  be  shown,  for  Shaftesbury's 
purposes,  that  the  Popish  priests  were  engaged  in  the  plan  of  a 
French  invasion  of  Ireland,  and  this  must  be  kept  in  mind  in 
reading  the  following  correspondence.  The  first  letter  comes  from 
Sir  Hans  Hamilton  to  Ormond,  dated  December  18th,  16S0.3 

Sir  Hans  (probably  a  Presbyterian)  did  not  doubt,  in  his  hatred 
of  Prelacy,  which  he  nearly  couples  with  Popery,  but  that  Henry 


1  Carte's  "Life  of  Ormond,"  vol.  ii., 
p.  812. 

2  Petition  of  Hugh    O'Hanlon   (pro- 
bably elder  brother  of  Redmond)  to  the 
King:- 

"  SHEWETH —  That  your  petitioner's 
father  died  two  years  before  the  rebellion 
beganin  Ireland  :  That  your  petitioner  at 
ye  time  of  his  father's  death  was  but  three 
months  old,  as  can  be  sufficiently  now 
proved  to  your  Matie  upon  the  place : 
That  his  soe  innocent  age  was  not  suf- 
ficient to  protect  him  in  his  small  estate 
against  the  Usurping  Power  :  That  ye 
estate  which  devolved  unto  him  by  the 
decease  of  his  father  was  granted  unto 
him  by  King  James  of  ever  Blessed 
Memory,  as  a  reward  for  many  good 
services  done  in  ye  warres  against  ye 
Irish:  That  your  petitioner  did  enter  his 
olayme  as  an  innocent  before  the  Com- 
missioners, lately  silting  at  Dublin,  but 
could  not  come  to  a  hearing,  ye  Commis- 
sioners being  straightened  in  point  of 
tyme.  Wherefore  your  petitioner  doth, 
in  most  humble  manner,  lay  himself  at 
the  feet  of  your  Most  Excellent  Majestie, 
and  implores  your  Majestie's  protection 
of  his  innocence,  by  appointing  him  to  be 
incerted  in  the  Bill  now  transmitted" 
[A.D.  1662].  »  Collection  concerning  the 
Execution  of  the  Acts  of  Settlements." 


Folio  BM  p.  337,  Dublin  Castle. 

3  "  May  it  please  your  Grace. — About 
afortnightago,oneOwenMurphy  brought 
mee  an  order  from  your  Grace  and  the 
Council,  requiring  all  Officers,  Civill  and 
Military,  to  bee  aiding  and  assisting  to 
ye  said  Murphy  in  apprehending  and  send- 
ing to  Dublin  all  such  persons  as  the  said 
Murphy  should  thinke  fitt  to  apprehend 
in  order  to  the  discovery  of  the  Popish 
plott  in  Ireland. 

"  Your  Grace's  most  humble  and 
"  obedient  Sarvantt, 

"HANS  HAMILTON. 

"  P.S.— These  letters  were  found  in 
the  hands  of  Redmon  O'Hanlon's  mother 
in  Law,  by  one  Mullen,  whoe  1  employed 
to  prosecute  the  Toryes,  and  having  ap- 
prehended some  ofRedmon's  recovers  in 
whose  hands  they  found  goods  robbed 
from  some  travellers  on  the  rode,  the 
said  woman  was  in  one  of  theire  houses. 
Seeing  Mullen  come  in,  shee  went  to  hide 
these  letters.  Hee  believed  it  to  bee 
money,  went  to  her,  and  took  them  fro 
her.  The  letters  and  the  recovers  hee 
brought  to  mee;  butt  not  the  woman. 
And  now  your  Grace  sees  that  a  small 
sume  of  money  given  to  the  sonne  in  law 
(for  soe  itt  is  probable  to  bee)  will  pre- 
vaile  with  that  BP:  to  procure  pardon 


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Jones,  Bishop  of  Meath,  for  a  sum  paid  by  Redmond  O'Hanlon  to 
Mr.  Annesiey,  of  Clough  [Clough-Maghen-catt]  in  the  county  of 
Down,  now  Castlewellan,  at  the  foot  of  the  Mourne  Mountains, 
was  ready  to  obtain  his  pardon. 

The  letters  that  caused  Sir  Hans  Hamilton  s  indignation  was 
a  correspondence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Annesiey  (the  latter  Deborah 
Jones,  daughter  of  the  Bishop)  with  Katherme  O  Hanlon,  Ked- 
mond's  mother-in-law,  under  the  directions  and  authority  of  the 
Bishop.  Her  husband,  Francis  Annesiey,  was  son  of  bir  *  rancis, 
first  Viscount  Valentia,  ancestor  of  the  present  Earl  Annesiey. 

The  first  letter  is  one  from  the  Bishop,  dated  Dublin,  Nov.  2, 
1680,  and  begins :— "Deare  Son  and  Daughter  Annesiey,"  and 
informs  them  that  a  proposal  (on  paper)  of  Hanlon's  he  had  received 
from  them,  was  read  in  the  Privy  Council  that  day;  and  that 
his  orders  were  to  assure  Hanlon  of  pardon  on  the  terms 
formerly  proposed,  of  his  declaring  himself,  and  assuring  the  Go- 
vernment of  his  reality,  by  first  bringing  in,  or  cutting  off  some  of 
the  principal  Tories  that  were  proclaimed:  he  and  his  friends  after- 
wards performing  what  they  further  undertook,  viz.:  to  free  the 
country  of  Tories. 

The  Bishop  complains  somewhat  jealously  of  O'Hanlon  for 
dealing  with  the  Bishop  of  Clogher  when  he  had  begun  with 
him,  as  appeared  by  the  Primate's  reading  a  similar  paper  be- 
fore the  Council,  that  O'Hanlon  had  sent  to  the  Bishop  of  Clogher ; 
but  he  excuses  it  as  probably  caused  by  O'Hanlon's  letter  to  him, 
dated  so  long  before  as  30th  September,  having  only  reached  him 
the  day  before  he  read  it  at  the  Council,  and  so  remained  un- 
answered.1 

for  soe  bloody  murthercrs  as  these  are  may  be  this  tarme,  to  which  I  referre 

known  to  bee  by  one  meanes  or  other."  the  consideration  wher  and  how  to  bee 

"  Endorsed  ordered  with  best  advantage. 

"Sr  Hans  Hamilton.  "Hanlon's  paper  I  received  in  your's, 

Dat.  18)  pec   j_^  which  was  read  in  Councill  this  day.  My 

Rec.  20  £  orders  are  to  assure  him  of  pardon  on 

Read  at  the  Board,  20  Dec.  1680.  ye  termes  formerly  proposed— his  decla- 

Lr»*     enclosed    from    y*    Bishop    of  reing  himself,  and  assuring  the  Govern- 

Meath."  ment  of  his  reality  in  first  bringing  in  or 

Carte  Papers,  vol.  xxxix.  p.  141.  cutting  off  some  of  ye  principall  Toryes, 

1  "Dublin,  Nov.  2,  1680.  such  as  are  proclaimed  or  notoriously 

'•DEARSONANDDACCSUTERANNKSLEY,  known  to  be  such.   After  which  the  par- 

—  I  received  your  last  and  rejoice  there-  don  shall  be  for  him  and  his  friends,  they 

by  to  find  your  welfares.    My  service  to  undertaking  what  they  promised  of  free- 

you  was  directed  as  from  Dublin,  being  ing  the  country  of  Toryes.    They  speak 

then  at  [Ro]bartstown,  and  yt  day  set-  of  a  Petition  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  for 

ting  forth  ;    so  as  I  could  not  write  so  that  purpose,  which  I  desire  may  be  pre- 

positively   concerning  things   heere    at  pared  and  signed   by  them.      All  this 

•  time.  Comeing hither  I  find  it  not  con-  must  be  carried  on  with  secresy,  other- 

venient  to  take  any  measures  alone,  or  wise  they  may  not  be  in  a  condition  to 

thout  the  advice  of  one  or  both  of  you  act  against  the  Toryes,  who  are  not  yet 

Mring  here  on  y  place,  which  I  suppose  suspecious    of  them.      I  observe  that 


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An  interval  of  a  full  month,  fatal  apparently  to  poor  Redmond 
O'Hanlon,  elapsed  between  the  foregoing  letter  of  the  Bishop  and 
the  next  adressed  by  his  daughter,  Deborah  Annesley,  to  "Mr. 
Hanlon,"  probably  the  father-in-law  of  Kedmond.  It  is  dated 
December  7,  1680.1 

Sheis  extremely  troubled  that  she  cannot  give  Kedmond  O'Hanlon 
("  Mr.  O'Hanlon"  she  calls  him)  no  better  account  of  what  (in  her 
gentle  heart)  she  was  assured  to  prosper  in.  The  Lord  Lieutenant 
was  overruled  by  the  Council,  who  would  not  hear  of  his  coming 
in ;  but  has  put  £200  on  Redmond,  and  £100  on  Loughlin  O'Hanlon 
("Loling"  she  writes  it),  so  that  what  arguments  could  be  used 
by  her  father  could  do  no  good.  "The  proclamation, "she  adds,  "will 
be  out  on  Saturday ;  but  my  father  is  finding  out  a  way  in  England 
for  al  those  pore  men  of  which  you  shall  know  more  from  Mr.  An- 
nesley. .  .  .  And  let  them  not  take  it  eile  (ill),  for  I  could  doe  noe 
more  if  it  had  bene  for  my  owne  liife."  In  a  postscript  this  tender 
creature  adds,  "  There  is  nothing  set  on  Edmond  Ban  [the  fair] 
and  Hagan." 

Now,  her  father  was  engaged  at  this  moment  in  helping  the  Earl 
of  Shaftesbury  to  bring  his  tragedy  of  the  sham  Popish  Plot,  then 
playing  in  London,  to  a  successful  conclusion  ;  and  the  Bishop  and 


Hanlon's  paper  which  you  last  sent  and 
is  before  mentioned,  was  dated  ye  last 
of  September,  which  yett  came  not  to 
my  hand  till  yesterday.  The  reason  of 
the  delay  I  would  understand,  And  ye 
reason  of  my  enquiry  in  that  is  I  doubted 
Hanlon's  interpreting  his  having  sent 
that  his  paper  so  long  since,  and  nothing 
answered  by  me  to  his  satisfaction,  to 
have  been  neglect  in  me.  And  that 
therefore  he  had  changed  ye  hand  from 
me  to  the  Bishop  of  Clogher,  (to  appeare 
for  him  concerning  which  there  was  a 
like  paper  as  that  from  you  sent  from  him 
to  ye  Bishop  of  Clogher),  and  yester- 
day shewed  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  by  ye 
said  Primate.  In  other  things  I  referre 
to  the  enclosed,  and  desiring  God's  bless- 
ing on  you  and  yours,  rest 

"  Your  very  affectionate  Father 

"HENRY  MlDENSIS." 

Carte  Papers.  Vol.  xxxix.  p.  143. 
1  "  December  ye  7th  1680. 

"MR.HANLON,  I  am  extremely  troubled 
y*  I  cannot  give  Mr.  O'Hanlon  noe  better 
account  of  what  I  was  assured  to  pros- 
per in. 

-"My LI.  L*. was  overruled  bytheCoun- 
cell  who  would  not  heare  of  his  coming 
in,  but  has  putt  £200  on  Redmon  O'Han- 
lon, and  £100  on  loling  [Laughlin],  so 


that  ye  arguments  could  be  use  by  my 
father  could  doe  noe  good.  The  Pro- 
clamation will  be  out  a  Saturday  against 
them;  but  my  father  is  finding  out  a  way 
in  England  for  al  those  pore  men,  of 
which  you  shall  know  from  Mr.  An- 
nesley: because  Leters  are  opened,  I  can 
say  no  more  of  that.  But  yl  way  will 
without  doubt  secure  them,  and  bring 
them  in,  of  which  I  desire  you  to  sende 
away  emediately  to  Mr.  Annesley  [who] 
will  desire  to  heare  from  you  Concern- 
ing it ;  and  let  them  know  y*  noe  menes 
shal  be  left  unsought  to  doe  them  good, 
for  my  father  will  have  them  in.  And 
let  them  not  take  it  eile,  for  I  [could] 
doe  noe  more  if  it  had  bene  for  my  own 
liife,  I  shal  stay  heare  tel  I  heare  from 
you  conserning  what  I  wrot  about  them 
to  Mr.  Annesley,  and  no  ston  shall  be 
left  unturned  to  bring  them  in,  which  I 
question  not  but  we  shal  finde  wil  be 
wel  conserning  them. 

"  I  am  Sir, 

"  Your  assured  friend  and  Servant 
"  DEB.  ANNESLEY. 

There  is  nothing  sett 
on  Edmond  Ban  and 
Hagan." 

Carte  Papers,  vol.  xxxix.  p.  144. 


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hisbrother,  Sir  Theophilus  Jones  (made  Scoutmaster-  General  for 
Ife  in  the  Bishop  s  place  at  the  Restoration),  had  sent  over  agents 
to  London,  to  keep  them  in  correspondence  with  Shaftesbury  and 


whole  lives  these  two  brothers,  sons  of  the 
•  vivacious"  (or  long-lived)  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  who  died  aged  104, 
were  deadly  foes  to  the  Irish.  In  May,  1652,  Dr.  Henry  Jones, 
then  Bishop  ofClogher,  and  Scoutmaster-General,  appeared  at 
the  Council  of  general  and  field  officers  of  Ludlow  s  army,  held 
at  Kilkenny,  and  made  the  officers  protest  (through  a  dread  only 
of  the  Lord,  they  trusted)  against  their  General's  too  great  aptness 
to  mercy  (so  they  termed  it),  and  ^paring  those  whom  the  Lord 
was  pursuing  with  His  great  severity.2 

From  Cromwell3  he  obtained  Lynch's  Knock,  the  ancient 
estate  ofthe  Lynches,  at  Summerhill,  in  the  county  of  Meath  (now  the 
noble  demesne  of  the  Lord  Langford)  as  did  Sir  Theophilus  the 
estate  of  the  Sarsfields  at  Lucan.  At  the  Restoration,  Gerald 
Lynch  sought  to  be  restored.  He  had  had  two  sons  killed,  fighting 
for  the  King  under  Ormond,  and  a  third  followed  the  King's  for- 
tunes abroad,  and  there  ended  his  days.  He  obtained  His  Majesty's 
Letters  ofthe  30th  of  March,  1662,  to  be  restored;  but  the  Bishop 
obtained  a  proviso  in  the  Act  of  Settlement  confirming  these  lands 
to  him,  notwithstanding  (as  was  urged  by  Sir  Nicholas  Plunket  for 
Gerald  Lynch)  "the  Bishop  has  a  good  bishopric,  while  the  said  for- 
mer proprietor  and  the  rest  of  his  children  not  killed  in  your  Ma- 
jesty's service,  are  in  a  sadd  condition."  4 

The  Bishop's  purpose  was  to  prove  Archbishop  Plunket's  com- 
plicity in  a  supposed  French  invasion.  Informers  (particularly  a 
degraded  priest,  the  Edmund  Murphy  mentioned  above,  and 
others),  induced  by  rewards  and  hopes  of  favour,  swore  that  the 

>  Part  of  Staftesbury's  design  was  to  Tower,  Dublin  Castle. 

damage  Ormond.  Ormond's  family  were  3  Humble  Petition  of  Dr.  Henry  Jones 

all  Roman  Catholics.    He  knew  his  fide-  to  the    Right  Hon.   the    Lord  Deputy 

lity  to  the  King  and  dynasty.     And  he  and  Council,  praying  that  Lynch's  Knock 

saw  how  difficult  and  dangerous  a  posi-  and  Jordanstown,  now  in  his  possession, 

tion  Ormond  would  be  placed  in,  suspect-  may  be  passed  to  him  by  Patent,   by 

ed    by  the    English   public    of  Popish  name  of  the  Manor  of  Michael's  Mount. 

sympathies.  [1657].  MS.  in  Library  of  Trinity  College, 

The  Earl  of  Arran,  his  son,  and  Lord  Dublin,  F.  3.  18. 

Deputy,  accordingly  seized  and  secretly  *  "  Schedule  of  Provisos  in  the  late 

opened    the   Bishop's    correspondence.  Act  and  draft  of  the  present  Bill  which 

His  w  hole  conduct  is  therefore  exhibited  relate  to  some  not  comprehended  in  your 

in  the  Carte  Collection.  Majesty's  Declaration,  and  which  do  ob- 

1  Letter  of  the  General  and  Field  Offi-  struct  the  performance  ofthe  ends  there- 

cers,  &c.  to  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  of."  —  Volumes   relating  to  the  Act  of 

Commons.—  Books  ofthe  Lord  Protec-  Settlement.  MS.,  Folio,  Record  Tower, 

tor's  Council  of  Ireland,  ~t  p.  69,  Record  Dublin  Castle. 


63 

Archbishop  had  made  large  levies  of  money  from  the  priests  of  his 
diocese  to  buy  arms,  and  had  surveyed  the  neighbouring  harbours, 
and  had  selected  Carlingford  (a  port  with  no  depth  of  water,  and 
where  fishing  boats  could  scarce  find  access),  as  the  place  of  dis- 
embarkation for  70,000  French  soldiers.  Whether  the  Bishop,  in 
his  bigotry,  believed  in  the  truth  of  this  monstrous  tale  or  not, 
Archbishop  Plunket  was  arrested, 'and  sent  for  trial  to  London,  the 
Bishop  of  Meath  alleging  that  his  influence  (the  influence  of  inno- 
cence and  worth)  was  such  in  Ireland,  there  could  be  no  fair 
trial.1 

To  conclude  with  this  poor  Archbishop,  he  could  give  no  an- 
swer except  a  denial  and  statement  of  the  infamy  of  the  witnesses, 
and  protested  that  he  could  fearlessly  appeal  to  the  Duke  ofOrmond, 
theEarlof  Anglesesy,  and  others  of  the  best  and  highest  Protestants 
in  Ireland,  if  he  were  tried  there  ;  or  even  if  the  Court  would  wait 
for  his  witnesses  who  had  already  arrived  at  Chester.  As  for  the 
vast  moneys  collected,  he  had  never  got  so  much  out  of  them  as  to 
maintain  a  servant,  as  was  attested  before  the  Council  in  Ireland : 
he  never  had  but  one.  And  the  house  he  lived  in  was  a  little 
thatched  house,  wherein  was  only  one  little  room  for  a  library,  which 
was  but  seven  feet  high.  However,  all  was  vain,  and  he  underwent 
the  butchery  allotted  to  treason,  a  victim  for  this  sham  Popish  Plot, 
and  French  invasion,  and  Utopian  Irish  army  of  70,000  men,  as  he 
called  it  himself,  at  Tyburn,  in  1681.2 

The  Bishop  of  Meath,  being  persuaded  in  his  own  mind  that 
Redmond  O'Hanlon  must  assuredly  know  everything  about  the 
designed  invasion,  hoped  to  get  him  for  a  witness  against  Arch- 
bishop Plunket,  and  to  send  him  to  London. 

It  is  very  possible  that  it  was  with  the  design  of  getting  into 
the  confidence  and  good  will  of  Redmond  O'Hanlon  that  he  first 


1  2d  Carte's  "Life  ofOrmond,  "p.  5 13,  "there   are  150  boys,  for  the  greater 
sect.  99.  part  children  of  the  Catholic  nobility  and 

2  State  Trials.  gentry,    and  there  are    also    about  40 
The  Archbishop  was  held  in  high  re-  children  of  the  Protestant  gentry.    You 

spect  among  the  best  of  the  Protestants  may  imagine  [he  adds]  what  envy  it  ex- 

in  Ireland :  and  it  is  a  circumstance  cu-  cites  in  the  Protestant  Masters  and  Mi- 

riously  illustrative  of  this    estimation,  nisters  to  see  Protestant  children  coming 

that  at  a  residence  and  school  which  he  to  the  schools  of  the  Society.  .  .  Dublin, 

had  established  for  Father  Stephen  Rice  22nd  November,  1672."  "Memoirs  of  the 

of  the  Society    of  Jesus    in   Drogheda  Most  Rev.  Oliver  Plunket,  Archbishop 

(then  and  long  after  the  seat  of  both  the  of  Armagh  and  Primate  of  All  Ireland, 

Protestant   and    Roman    Catholic  Pri-  by  the  Rev.  Patrick  Moran,  Vice- Rector 

mates),  out  of  150  pupils  there  were  40  of  the  Irish  College,  Rome,  p.  100,  8vo. 

of  them  Protestants.     "  In  the  school,"  Dublin,  James  Duffy,  1861 — a  work  full  of 

writes  the  Archbishop  to  Father  Oliva,  interest,  and  containing  original  histori- 

General  of  the  Society  of  Jesus  at  Rome,  cal  documents  of  great  value. 


64 

employed  his  kind-hearted  daughter  to  correspond  with  Redmond 
about  his  obtaining  his  pardon  ;  for, 

« no  prayer,  no  moving  art 

E'er  bent  that  fierce  inexorable  heart. 

It  therefore  may  be  that  he  only  amused  his  daughter  by  stories 
theVoclaiming  of  Redmond  (THanhm;  and  he  may 
planned  it,  as  a  means  of  driving  him  more  certainly 

r3  Annesley's  letter  was  of  the  same  date  and  tenor  a,shis 
wife's.'  He  was  directed,  he  says,  « from  above  to  apprise  Red- 
mond  O'Hanlon  that  £200  was  set  on  his  head,  and  that  £1<  0  was 
the  price  of  the  others. 

"  A  pardon  had  certainly  been  obtained  for  you,  he  says,  it 
in  so  enormous  a  case  it  could  have  been  done  without  violence  to 
justice.  1  can  tell  you  (if  you  come  over  to  me^  and  possibly  it 
may  be  worth  your  while)  where  the  shoe  pinches." 

He  then  plainly  requires  to  know  if  O'Hanlon  will  be  a  dis- 
coverer of  the  design  for  the  French  invasion  here,  and  who  m 
Ireland  are  the  principal  abettors.  In  that  case  a  pardon  will  be 
obtained.*  But  O'Hanlon  must  have  spurned  the  vile  proposal; 


i  This  Doctor  Henry  Jones  it  was 
that  inflamed  the  officers  of  the  English 
army  under  Ludlow  to  frenzy  against 
men  who  had  nothing  to  say  to  the  al- 
leged crimes,  even  if  true. 

"  Mr.  Speaker,  upon  the  l?th  of  April 
last  many  of  your  servants  came  into 
Kilkenny,  and  had  a  meeting  with  sun- 
dry of  your  general  and  field  officers. 
....  The  observance  of  our  General's 
aptness  to  mercy  and  to  a  composure 
with  the  enemy,  ....  doth  (through 
dread  of  the  Lord  only,  we  trust)  occa- 
sion much  remorce  ...  in  most  minds 
here  concerning  some  treaties  which 
are  liable  to  be  attended  with  sparing 
whom  the  Lord  is  pursuing  with  His 
great  displeasure ;  and  whether  our  pa- 
tient attending  rather  His  further  seve- 
rity upon  them  be  not  most  safe.  And 
whilst  wee  were  in  debate  hereof,  and  of 
dealing  with  those  that  yet  continue  in 
rebellion,  an  abstract  of  some  particular 
murders  wag  produced  by  the  Scout  Mas- 
ter-General (who  had  the  original  exa- 
minations of  them  more  at  large  (.  .  .  . 
And  indeed,  so  deeply  were  all  affected 
with  the  barbarous  wickedness  of  the 
actors  in  these  crtiel  murthers  and  mas- 
sacres .  .  .  that  we  are  much  afraid 


our  behaviour  towards  this  people  may 
never  sufficiently  avenge  the  same  .  .  . 
And  lest  some  tender  concessions  might 
be  concluded  through  your  unacquaint- 
edness    with   these    abominations,    we 
have  caused  this  enclosed  abstract  to  be 
transcribed,  and  made  fit  for  your  use. 
Kilkenny,   May  5,    1652."      ^_,    p.  69, 
"  Books  of  the  Council  for  the  Affairs  of 
Ireland,"  Record  Tower,  Dublin  Castle. 
2  "  Mr.  O'Hanlon,  1  was  directed  from 
above  to  give  you  this  account  of  yl  af- 
fairs in  rellation  to  your  friends  are  in 
a   worse    condition    yh    was   expected. 
There  is  £200  sett  on  ye  head  of  one, 
and  £100  as  ye  price  of  ye  other.     A 
pardon  had  certainly  bin  obtained  for 
yra,  if  in  so  enormous  a  case  it  could 
have  bin  done  with1  violence  to  justice. 
I  can  tell  you  (if  you  come  over  to  me, 
and  possibly  it  may  be  worth  your  while) 
where  y"   shoe  pinches.     I   have   only 
this  to  adde  (for  'tis  not  convenient  to 
write  my  thoughts  to  you),  and  Ibegge 
your  speedy  answer  to  it,   that  I  may 
returne  it  to  my  Lord  Bishop  of  Meath. 
who  will  acquaint  ye  Councill  with  your 
resolution  in  two  poynts  :   Ist  Whether 
Redmon  O'Hanlon  will  be  a  discoverer 
of  ye   designe   for  y*  French  invasion 


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for  during  six  months  more  he  lived,  with  £200  upon  his  head, 
unkilled,  uncaught,  amongst  the  rocks  of  Sleive  Gullion,  in  the 
recesses  of  the  Moyry  Pass,  or  amongst  the  broken  hills  around 
Forkhill ;  for  when,  instead  of  fearing  or  hating  a  man,  the  people 
fear  for  him,  he  sees  with  many  eyes,  and  hears  with  many  ears. 
Though  great  attempts  were  made  (says  Sir  Francis  Brewster), 
and  large  rewards  offered  for  bringing  in  his  head,  both  in  the  Earl 
of  Essex's  Lord  Lieutenancy  and  the  then  present  one,  the  army 
being  put  to  more  trouble  in  attending  and  pursuing  him  and  his 
party  than  all  the  Tories  in  the  kingdom  since  the  general  rebellion 
of  Ireland,  it  was  all  in  vain.  But  the  Duke  of  Ormond  took  at 
last  his  own  way,  seeming  quiet,  and  giving  "  the  Count"  no  distur- 
bance. And  that  there  should  be  no  taking  air  of  his  design,  the 
Duke  drew  a  commission  and  instructions  all  with  his  own  hand 
for  two  gentlemen  he  employed.  And  these  were  so  well  pursued 
by  the  gentlemen  entrusted,  that  on  Monday,  the  25th  of  April, 
1681,  at  two  in  the  afternoon,  Count  Hanlon  was  shot  through 
the  heart.  "  Thus  fell  this  Irish  Scanderbeg,"  concludes  Sir 
Francis  Brewster's  letter,  "who,  considering  the  circumstances 
he  lay  under,  and  the  short  time  he  continued  to  act,  did  things 
more  to  be  admired  than  Scanderbeg  himself." 

Sir  Francis  doubted  not  but  there  would  come  abroad  a  narra- 
tive of  his  life,  and  therefore  added  no  more,  only  to  tell  his  cor- 
respondent that  he  had  this  relation  from  the  gentleman's  own 
mouth  that  the  Duke  employed.  He  saw  the  commission  all 
written  by  the  Duke's  own  hand,  but  he  would  not  let  him  see  the 
private  instructions  he  had,  but  assured  him  that  all  the  army  of 
Ireland  could  not  have  done  it,  nor  was  any  other  way  left  but 
that  which  the  Duke  took. 

The  narrative  of  Redmond  O' Hanlon' s  life  expected  by  Sir 

here,  and  who  in  Ireland  are  ye  princi-  in,   and  the  inclination  they  ought  to 

pal  abettors.     If  he  doth  y*  he  need  not  have  to  their  owne  interest,  should  pre- 

doubt  of  countenance,  and  pardon,  and  vaile  with  ym  above  all  other  advice, 

reward  alsoe  for  himself  and  his  2  bro-  how  preferrable  is  a  quiett  life  to  that 

thers.     2ndly,  If  he  will  be  at  ye  charge  whch  you  now  lead;  therefore,  you  should 

of  procuring  and  passing  his  owne  and  resolve  to  become  honest  men,  to  prove 

his    brothers   with    Neale    O'Hagian's  firme  to  ye  king's  interests,   and  never 

pardon   in  England.     If  soe,  my  Lord  desiste  againe  from  their  obedience  to 

Bishop  of  Meath  will  draw  up  ye  Pe-  ye  king,  if  you  can  obtaine  once  more 

tition  for  ym  to  send  it  to  a  sure  and  his  gracious  pardon,   which  I  question 

Honble  Hand,   yl  will  gett  it  don   wth-  not  may  yet  be  obtained,   though  new 

out   controule.      I   alsoe   will   improve  difficulties  are  started, 

my  interest  wth  the  Earle  of  Anglesey  "  I  shall  adde  noe  more,  but  yi 

and    other    friends   therefor  their   ad-  „  j  am       y        j  ^      friend 

vantage.     This  I  doe,  that  I  may  know  *  p  *A  ANN|SSEY. 

their  condition  here,   and  what  is  pro-  t  ~,       ,     ~       _    icon 

Dosed  to  he  done  in   England   for  them  Clough,  Dec.  9,  1680. 


posed  to  be  done  in  England  for  them 

by  my  assistance  [  ].  "  For  Mrs.  Ratherm  U'J 

if  ye  consideration  of  ye  misery  they  are       Carte  Papers,  vol.  xxxix.  p.  142 


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Francis  Brewster  never  appeared  ;  but  his  memory  has  been  kept 
"reen  in  the  souls  of  the  people  of  Ireland.     In  the  neighbourhood 
of  his  former  haunts  every  cave  is  «  Redmond  O  Hanlon  s  parlour, 
«  Redmond  O'Hanlon's  stable,"  or  «  Redmond  O  Hanlon  s  bed, 
and  his  grave,  without  a  stone  to  mark  the  spot,  is  better  and 
more  certainly  known  than  many  a  titled  hero's,  loaded  with  a 
pompous  monument,  i     But  hitherto  the  actual  slayer  of  Redmond 
O'Hanlon  has  been  unknown  to  fame. 

This  long  concealed  secret  is,  however,  at  length  out.  ^  In  a  list 
of "  Warrants  of  Concordatum  signed  by  the  Lord  Lieutenant 
and  Council  between  31st  August,  1677,  and  25th  of  March,  1682," 


»  On  the  2 1st  of  September,  1863, 
leaving  Rostrevor  for  Newry  at  an  early 
hour,  I  went  from  thence  alone  on  foot 
to  spend  a  day  in  the  Fews  Mountains. 

My  principal  object  was  to  visit  one 
of  those  primaeval  subterranean  stone 
chambers,  like  the  celebrated  cave  at 
Grange,  near  Drogheda,  described  in 
Lewis's  Topographical  Dictionary  as 
lying  in  the  townland  of  Augh-na-cloch- 
MulTan  (meaning,  as  I  afterwards  found, 
The  field  of  the  Stone  or  tomb  of  Mul- 
lan),  in  the  parish  of  Killevy ;  and 
I  purposed  to  return  thence  to  Rostre- 
vor by  the  ferry  at  Narrow  Water,  so 
as  to  pass  on  my  journey  the  ancient 
ruins  of  Killevy  Church,  lying  at  the 
foot  of  Slieve  Gullion,  on  the  eastern 
side— a  strangely  large  church  and  an- 
cient graveyard  for  so  wild  and  moun- 
tainous a  district.  When  I  got  near 
Augh-na-cloch-Mullan,  I  was  still  ask- 
ing the  way,  but  found  the  place  little 
known.  At  length  I  came  to  a  house, 
and,  knocking  at  the  door,  a  hearty  old 
woman  came  out  to  me,  and  went  for  her 
as  hearty  old  husband,  who  was  some- 
what lame,  I  perceived,  as  he  clam- 
bered out  of  the  potato  garden,  where 
he  had  been  digging  some  for  supper. 
He  guessed  the  place  I  wanted  to  see, 
though  he  did  not  know  it  by  its  Irish 
name ;  and  no  wonder  ,•  for  I  said  it 
broad,  as  near  as  I  could  to  the  way  it 
is  written,  while  it  ought  to  be  sounded 
like  Anna-gle-raillion.  "Oh!  you  want 
Redmond  O'Hanlon's  Cave,"  and  he 
pointed  to  a  field  about  half  a  mile  off, 
and  in  the  middle  of  it  some  old  black- 
thorns, near  some  huge  mossy  granite 
stones— thorns  that  so  often  mark  in 
Ireland  ancient  sites ;  the  reason  being, 
that  they  protect  the  remains ;  for  no 


one  would  dare  to  stir  old  solitary 
bushes  :  they  are  the  haunts  of  *'  good 
people."  He  seemed  surprised  at  the 
interest  I  took  in  it,  and  doubted  the 
answers  I  gave  him.  But  when  I  pulled 
out  a  wax  candle  and  matches  I  had 
brought  to  light  up  the  cave,  he  said, 
with  emphasis,  "  By  dad,  but  I  would 
like  to  go  with  you :  you  are  after  some 
of  Redmond  O'Hanlon's  goold.  Will 
you  promise  me  a  share  of  what  you 
find  ?"  I  promised  to  call  in  on  him  on 
my  way  back,  and  walked  off  to  Anna- 
gle-million.  But  I  found,  to  my  re- 
gret, that  the  huge  upright  stones  that 
had  formed  the  cave  underground  to 
the  centre  of  what  had  once  been  a  bar- 
row or  earth  mound,  had  been  first 
made  a  quarry  of  by  the  masons  when 
Mr.  Synnot's  new  house  at  Ballymoyer 
was  built,  some  thirty  years  ago ;  and 
since  then  this  curious  monument  of 
the  earliest  times  has  been  utterly 
ruined,  and  nearly  effaced.  I  returned 
a  wiser  man.  My  hosts  had  got  brown 
bread  and  sweet  milk  ready  for  me. 
They  had  a  mountain  freshness  of  face 
and  heart,  and  seemed  to  live  for  each 
other.  Like  Philemon  and  Baucis — 

"  Hymenee  et  1'amour  par  des  desirs 

constants 
Avoient  uni  leurs  cceurs  d£s  leur  plus 

doux  printemps. 

Us  surent  cultiver  sans  se  voir  assistes 
Leur  enclos  et  leur  champ  par  deux  fois 

vingt  e*tes : 
Eux  seuls  ils  composoient  toute  leur  re- 

publique 
Heureux  de  ne  devoir  a  pas  un  domes- 

tique 
Le  plaisir  ou  le  gre  des  soins  qu'ils  se 

rendoient." 


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discovered  since  the  foregoing  was  written,  are  the  following 
entries  :l — 

"  6th  May,  1681.  To  Art  O'Hanlcm,  for  killing  the  Torie  Redmond 
O'Hanlon,  £100." 

"  12th  December,  1681.  To  John  Mullin,  &c.,  as  reward  for  killing 
Loughlin  O'Hanlon,  £50." 

It  thus  appears  that  Redmond  died  by  treachery — 

" sold, 

And  conquered,  not  by  steel,  but  gold." 

Tanderagee,  in  the  county  of  Armagh  (or,  more  properly,  "  Ton- 
regee,"  as  the  Irish  call  it),  was  the  seat  of  "  O'Hanlon"  for  genera- 
tions ascending  to  times  before  the  birth  of  Christ,  as  the  Irish  were 
wont  to  boast  of  the  places  of  habitation  of  many  of  their  septs. 
"  Tonregee"  means  "  with  his  back  to  the  wind,"  and  is  descrip- 
tive of  the  brow  where  stood  Sir  Oghie  O'Hanlon's  castle,  and 
where  now  stands  the  Duke  of  Manchester's. 

In  1587  Sir  Oghie  O'Hanlon  surrendered  all  his  territory  in 
Upper  and  Lower  Orier  into  the  Queen's  hands,  and  received  it 
back  as  of  Her  Majesty's  gift,  by  Knight's  service  "inCapite," 
under  condition  to  maintain  upon  the  premises  twelve  foot  soldiers, 
called  kerne,  and  eight  horsemen,  well  armed  and  appointed,  to 
attend  upon  the  Lord  Deputy  in  all  hostings  and  risings  out  for 
forty  days  together  ;  and  lastly,  and  chiefly,  that  none  should 
thenceforth  challenge  the  style  of  u  O'Hanlon"  by  the  name  of 
Tanist,  but  that  he  should  utterly  abolish  and  extinguish  the  same ; 
in  other  words,  become  an  English  Knight,  a  poor  "  Sir  Oghie," 
instead  of  that  name  which  "  sounded  fuller  in  the  mouth,"  and 
was  more  prized  by  the  Irish — "  O'Carroll,"  "  O'Hanlon," 
"  O'Neil,"  &c. —  than  the  best  Earldom ;  English  titles  indeed  being 
found  to  weaken  the  Irish  chiefs,  and  given  for  that  purpose. 

The  estate  was  entailed  by  the  Letters  Patent  (dated  1st  Decem- 
ber, 1587),  on  Sir  Oghie's  only  legitimate  son,  Oghie  oge  O'Hanlon 
(i.  e.  "  Oghie  the  younger"),  and  in  default  of  his  issue  male,  on  Sir 

As  we  sat  and  talked,  it  was  plain  think  anything  of  twenty  miles."    "How 

that  my  old  host  thought  I  was  some  old  are  you?"  said  he.     "In  my  55th 

Government  officer,  because  of  my  know-  year."   "  Bedad,  then,  you'll  bo  getting 

ledge  of  the  country,  acquired  from  the  ould    and    shtiff."     He  meant,   that  I 

Ordnance  Maps,    and   scarce  believed  should  be  taking  no  more  long  moun- 

my  denial,  or  that  mere  curiosity  was  tain  walks.  Happy,  hospitable,  virtuous 

my  motive.     "Does   the    Government  people!     How  strange  their  fate : — 

employ   you?      Are   you  paid   for   it?  f  „        ,  ,,                     .,  .     ,      .  , 

What  do  you  make  by  it?"     He  won-  Ro"nd  the  Wlde  world  m  banishment 

dered  still  more  at  the  length  of  my  „      to,  rjam>    ...       .       .       „  ,,          , 

walk,  and  to  hear  that  I  was  a  "  counsel-  Forced  from  their  pleasing  fields   and 

lor"  from  Dublin.    "  You'll  sit  still  when  natlve  home- 

you  get  home."  "  Oh!"  said  I,  "  I  don't  1  Carte  Papers,  vol.  lix.,  p  250. 


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Oghie's  "  reputed  sons,"  Terence,  Shane,  and  Brien,  and  their  issue 
male  in  succession ;  then  upon  Sir  Oghie's  brothers,  "  Patrick,  Mo- 
laghlin,  Shane,  and  Felomie."1 

The  O'Hanlons  loyally  adhered  to  the  English.  They  and 
the  Magennises  were  said  to  be  the  only  friends  of  Queen  Elizabeth 
in  Ulster.3  "  O'Hanlon  "  claimed  to  be  hereditary  royal  stan- 
dard-bearer north  of  the  Boyne.  In  1595,  in  the  war  against  Hugh 
O'Neil,  the  royal  standard  was  borne,  in  the  march  of  the  Deputy 
Sir  William  Russell  from  Dundalk,  the  first  day  by  O'Mulloy,  and 
the  next  by  O'Hanlon.3  On  the  1 7th  of  November,  1600,  Sir  Oghie 
was  slain  at  the  pass  of  Carlingford,  fighting  on  the  English  side 
under  the  orders  of  Lord  Mountjoy. 

What  was  Redmond  O'Hanlon's  relationship  to  Sir  Oghie  does 
not  appear.  But  in  1634,  Hugh  O'Hanlon  (who  may  have  been  the 
eldest  brother  of  Redmond)  petitioned  King  Charles  the  Second  to 
be  restored  to  his  estate,  by  a  proviso  to  be  inserted  in  the  Bill  of 
Explanation,  inasmuch  as  the  late  Court  of  Claims  had  been  too 
straitened  in  time  to  decide  his  claim  to  "  Innocence."  His  father, 
he  said,  died,  in  1639,  when  he  was  only  three  months  old,  so  that 
he  was  not  two  years  old  at  the  time  of  the  Irish  Rebellion  ;  yet 
his  so  innocent  age  was  not  sufficient  to  protect  him  in  his  small 
estate  (being  seven  townlands  granted  to  his  father  as  a  reward  for 
his  loyalty  against  Tyrone),  but  they  were  taken  from  him  by  the 
usurping  powers.4  Vain  were  his  petitions  and  his  protests. 

Near  Tanderagee  may  be  seen,  side  by  side,  two  small  unfenced 
graveyards,  called  respectively  the  Catholic  and  Protestant  (or,  in 
O'Hanlon's  day,  the  Irish  and  the  "Saxon"  or  English)  graveyards. 
For  often,  in  Ireland,  it  is  not  as  in  some  other  lands,  that  those  who 
were  divided  in  life — 

"  The  grave  unites ;  where  e'en  the  great  find  rest," 

but  in  death  they  still  remain  distinct.  And  any  Irish  peasant  will 
point  out  among  the  green  mounds  of  the  Irish  graveyard — the 
greenest  of  all— Redmond  O'Hanlon's  Grave. 

1  Lodge's  Abstracts  of  the  "  Records  Curiosa  Hibei  nica,"  vol.  i.  p.  140. 

of  the  Rolls,"  vol.  i.  p.  483.     Ulster's  '  Sir  Richard  Cox  in  "  Hibernia  An- 

Office,  Dublin  Castle.  glicana,"  p.  407. 

"  Brief  declaration  of  the  Govern-  «  Series  of  twelve  volumes    in  folio 

ment  of  Ireland,  discovering  the   dis-  MS.  relating  to  the  Acts  of  Settlement 

contents  of  the  Irishry."     By  Captain  and  Explanation.  Vol.  B.  p.  335.  Record 

Thomas  Lee,  A.  D.  1594.     "  Desiderata  Tower,  Dublin  Castle. 

(To  le  continued.) 


PROCEEDINGS  AND  PAPERS. 


QUARTERLY  GENERAL  MEETING,  held  at  the  Society's  Apartments, 
William-street,  Kilkenny,  on  Wednesday,  April  1 7th  (by  ad- 
journment from  the  3rd),  1867. 

The  Rev.  SAMUEL  PENROSE  in  the  Chair. 
The  following  new  Members  were  elected  : — 

Sir  Denham  Jephson  Norreys,  Bart.,  Mallow  Castle  :  Colonel 
Meadows  Taylor,  M.  R.  1.  A.,  Old  Court,  Harold's  Cross,  Dublin  ; 
W.  H.  S.  Westropp,  Esq.,  M.R.I.  A.,  2,  Idrone- terrace,  Blackrock, 
Dublin;  J.  H.  Jephson,  Esq.,  16,  Adelaide-street,  Kingstown; 
Joseph  O'Kelly,  Esq.,  M.R.I.  A.,  51,  Stephen's-green,  Dublin  ; 
and  George  Henry  Kinahan,  Esq.,  Geological  Survey  of  Ireland, 
51,  Stephen's-green,  Dublin:  proposed  by  George  V.  Du  Noyer, 
Esq. 

The  Right  Hon.  Richard  More  O'Farrell,  Ballyna  House,  En- 
field  ;  Denis  Shine  Lalor,  Esq.,  J.  P.,  Grenagh,  Killarney ;  and 
Daniel  O'Connell,  Esq.,  J.  P.,  Derrynane  Abbey,  county  of  Kerry : 
proposed  by  John  P.  Prendergast,  Esq.,  Barrister-at-Law. 

The  Rev.  Benjamin  W.  Adams,  D.  D.,  M.  R.  I.  A.,  Cloghran 
Rectory,  Drumcondra,  county  Dublin  :  proposed  by  the  Rev. 
James  Graves. 

Thomas  Alexander  ^Thompson,  Esq.,  M.  D.,  Carrickfergus : 
proposed  by  Dr.  Colles  L.  Anderson,  Liverpool. 

Richard  Culley,  Esq.,  3  Monument-place,  Liverpool  ;  John 
Middleton,  Esq.,  St.  Francis  Abbey,  Kilkenny  ;  and  Mr.  Caleb 
Payne,  Wellington-place,  Kilkenny  :  proposed  by  Mr.  J.  G.  A. 
Prim. 

Mr.  James  O'Brien,  Jenkinstown  :  proposed  by  Mr.  John 
Hogan. 

The  Auditors  brought  up  their  Report  on  the  Treasurer's 
Account  for  the  year  1865,  as  follows: — 


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CHARGE. 

Iftfi?  ^         8'      ^" 

Jan.  1.          To  balance  in  Treasurer's  hands,  .     .     .          .  129   14     7  J 

Dec.  31  .       Annual  Subscriptions,  including  those  to  Illus- 

tration Fund,      .........  238  1 

Life  Compositions,      ........  1510 

One  year's  rent  of  Jerpoint  Abbey,  .     .     . 

Sale  of  Woodcuts,  .........  550 

Sale  of  "  Journal"  to  Members,    ....  1186 

Donation   from   Daniel  Mac  Car  thy,  Esq., 
towards  printing  the  Life  and  Letters  of 

Florence  Mac  Carthy,   .......  1  1   15     6 

„  Gold  Ring  sold  to  the  British  Museum,       .  400 

£408     1   111 

DISCHARGE. 

1865.  £       *'     d' 

Dec.  31.       By  postages  of  "Journal,"  .......  20 

„       „         circulars  and  general  correspondence,  10     3     8 

„  Cost  of  Illustrations  for  "Journal,"  .     .     .  35   15     0 
„     „     of  printing,  &c.,  of  "Journal''  for  four 

quarters,  ending  October,  1865,      ...  78     4  1  1 

,,  General  printing  and  stationery,   ....  12   12     9 

„  Commission  to  Dublin  Collector,  ....  1156 

„  Sundry  expenses,   .........  996 

Carriage  of  parcels,     ........  0131 

Purchase  of  back  numbers  of  the  "  Jour- 

nal," &c.,   ...........  970 

Rent  and  caretaker,  Jerpoint  Abbey,      .     .  200 

Rent  and  insurance  of  Museum,    ....  14  12     0 

Transcribing  original  documents,       ...  4  15     0 
Cash  paid  on  account  of  repairs  at  Clonmac- 

noise,     ............  11171 

Balance  in  Treasurer's  hands,  .....  196     7     8j 


£408     1   11  J 

We  have  examined  the  above  Accounts  with  the  Vouchers,  and  have 
found  them  correct,  and  that  there  is  a  balance  of  £196  Is.  8jd.  in  the 
hands  of  the  Treasurer. 


,  1867. 

Mr.  Robertson  reported  that  he  had  found,  on  a  recent  inspec- 
tion of  the  tower  of  the  Franciscan  Abbey,  Kilkenny,  that  during 
the  past  few  months  several  new  cracks  and  fissures  had  taken  place, 
the  result  of  the  last  winter's  severe  frost,  apparently,  which  he  was 


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apprehensive  were  of  a  character  likely  to  endanger  the  stability  of 
that  very  light  and  graceful  structure. 

All  the  members  present  expressed  great  regret  that  any  danger 
should  be  considered  to  exist  of  the  falling  of  this  fine  belfry  tower, 
and  were  most  anxious  that  something  might  be  done,  if  possible, 
to  prevent  such  a  catastrophe ;  and,  on  the  suggestion  of  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Graves,  Mr.  Robertson  was  requested  to  make  another  and 
more  careful  inspection  of  the  building,  and  to  report  to  the  Com- 
mittee of  the  Society  whether  any  and  what  steps  might  be  taken, 
such  as  would  conduce  to  the  preservation  of  the  tower. 

The  following  presentations  were  received,  and  thanks  voted  to 
the  donors:  — 

By  the  Publisher  :  "  The  Builder,"  Nos.  1241-1254,  inclusive. 

By  the  Publisher  :  "  The  Gentleman's  Magazine,"  for  January, 
February,  and  March,  1867- 

By  the  Very  Rev.  the  Dean  of  Ossory,  President  of  the  So- 
ciety: a  stone  in  which  a  cup-shaped  hollow  had  been  formed 
(similar  to  other  specimens  in  the  Museum,  supposed  to  have  served 
as  rude  lamps),  and  which  seemed  to  have  undergone  some  kind  of 
vitrifying  process.  It  was  found  in  the  cemetery  of  St.  Canice's 
Cathedral,  in  the  place  at  which  indications  had  previously  been 
discovered  of  an  encaustic  tile  manufactory  having  been  anciently 
carried  on. 

By  Mr.  J.  Middleton  :  a  number  of  boars'  tusks,  which  had  been 
dug  up  in  making  some  improvements  at  his  then  residence,  Suir 
Villa,  Newtown,  near  Waterford.  They  were  found  resting  on 
the  rock,  beneath  three  feet  of  yellow  clay. 

By  the  Rev.  N.  R.  Brunskill :  a  very  beautiful  specimen  of  the 
Cronabane  halfpenny,  of  1789,  which  had  been  gilt.  Also  a  gilt 
medal  of  the  regency,  during  the  insanity  of  George  III.,  of  the 
same  year. 

By  Mr.  Grady,  Stonyford  :  a  copper  counterfeit  six  shilling 
Bank  of  Ireland  Token,  of  the  year  1804,  of  very  admirable  ex- 
ecution. 

By  Mr.  C.  Faulkner,  F.  S.  A. :  rubbings  of  two  decorative  tiles 
from  St.  ^atrick's  Cathedral,  Dublin.  The  originals  were  of  a 
dark  colour  from  hard  burning,  indented,  and  had  been  highly 
glazed.  The  patterns  were  similar  to  some  of  the  old  flooring  tiles 
of  St.  Canice's  Cathedral. 

By  Mr.  Kyran  Molloy,  Seven  Churches,  Clonmacnoise  :  a  rub- 
bing of  a  small  altar  stone,  which  the  Rev.  Dr.  Todd,  S.  F., 
T.  C.  D.,  had  discovered  in  the  burying  ground  there  during  a 
visit  recently  paid  to  the  Seven  Churches  by  that  eminent  archae- 
ologist. The  stone  was  inscribed  with  five  crosses,  as  usual  on 
ancient  altars. 

Mr.  Robertson  exhibited  a  rare  silver  medal,  of  very  beautiful 


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execution,  lent  to  him  for  the  purpose  by  Joseph  Greene,  Esq., 
Lakeview,  who  had  found  it  amongst  the  effects  of  the  late  Sir  J. 
Newport.  It  was  commemorative  of  one  of  the  French  refugees  in 
England,  of  the  period  of  the  Commonwealth. 

Mr.  Robert  Day,  Jun.,  Cork,  sent  a  model  of  a  bronze  leaf- 
shaped  sword,  in  his  possession,  nearly  two  feet  long,  the  noticeable 
feature  of  which  was  its  possessing  a  handle  which  Professor  Owen 
pronounced  to  be  the  bone  of  a  mammal,  probably  a  cetacian. 
Mr.  Day  asked  for  information  as  to  the  size  which  it  Anight  be 
convenient  to  have  it  photographed,  for  an  illustration  in  the  So- 
ciety's "  Journal,"  of  which  he  wished  to  bear  the  expense  himself 
in  part. 

The  Secretary  undertook  to  communicate  with  Mr.  Day  on  the 
subject. 

In  reply  to  a  letter  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Graves,  respecting  the  cap- 
stone of  the  conical  top  of  Ardmore  Round  Tower,  county  of  Wa- 
terford,  blown  off  in  the  storm  which  took  place  at  the  end  of  Fe- 
bruary last,  Mr.  R.  R.  Brash,  Architect,  Cork,  wrote  as  follows  : — 

"  The  Ardmore  cap-stone  presents  nothing  to  photograph.  The  co- 
nical top  of  the  tower  was  finished  by  two  stones,  or  what  was  probably 
one  stone  originally,  but  which  had  opened  in  a  vertical  joint  by  the  ac- 
tion of  the  weather.  The  stone  is  about  16  inches  high  ;  and  I  don't  think 
it  likely  the  old  builders  would  have  made  the  finish  with  an  upright 
joint.  The  surface  is  very  much  weather-worn  and  disintegrated,  but  has 
no  sign  of  carving  or  tool  marks  whatever ;  there  is  a  sort  of  welt,  or 
slightly  raised  ridge  on  one  of  the  stones,  but  this  is  caused  by  the  action 
of  the  weather,  leaving  a  hard  part  of  the  stone  prominent  ;  the  top  is 
rounded  and  worn,  but  there  is  no  appearance  of  a  mortice  or  any  prepa- 
ration for  holding  a  cross  (such  as  is  said  to  have  surmounted  the  cap)  or 
any  other  finish;  and  there  could  have  been  none,  as  the  stone  now  de- 
scribed was  the  sole  finish  the  tower  had.  The  rest  of  the  cap  of  the  tower 
is  in  a  very  shaky  state.  I  hope  Mr.  Odell,  the  proprietor,  will  take 
some  steps  to  preserve  it  from  further  destruction." 

Mr.  Bracken,  County  Inspector,  said  he  was  quite  sure,  from 
Mr.  Odell's  well-known  taste  and  public  spirit,  that  gentleman 
would  take  the  utmost  care  of  the  tower. 

Mr.  Robertson  exhibited  a  rare  Saxon  silver  coin,  in  beautiful 
preservation,  which  had  been  recently  dug  up  by  a  poor  man  who 
had  brought  it  to  the  Rev.  Vernon  R.  Drapes,  Rector  of  Durrow, 
wishing  that  its  value  might  be  ascertained ;  and  Mr.  Drapes  was 
anxious  to  have  it  sold  to  the  best  advantage,  for  the  finder's  benefit. 
He  (Mr.  Robertson)  was  at  once  able  to  identify  it  as  a  rare  coin  of 
Offa,  King  of  Mercia,  who  flourished  A.D.  747.  On  the  obverse 
was  "  •%•  OFFA  REX  ;"  on  the  reverse,  the  name  of  "  •%•  IBBA." 

Mr.  Graves  made  some  remarks  on  the  interest  attaching  to  the 
discovery  of  Saxon  coins  in  Ireland. 


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The  Rev.  V.  R.  Drapes,  to  whom  Mr.  Robertson  had  remitted 
the  sum  he  had  obtained  for  this  rare  coin,  on  behalf  of  the  finder, 
gave  the  following  account  of  its  discovery : — 

"  The  coin  of  Offa  was  found  by  a  man  named  John  Curran,  in  a  field, 
of  which  he  is  tenant,  in  the  Queen's  County,  about  five  miles  from  Rath- 
downey.  The  field  is  six  acres  in  extent,  and  is  surrounded  by  a  fence 
nearly  circular.  In  the  middle  of  the  field  are  the  ruins  of  a  church 
standing  in  a  graveyard.  The  graveyard  was  surrounded  by  a  wall,  of 
which  the  ruins  were  removed  about  twenty-seven  years  ago.  The  name 
of  the  townland  is  Bawnaughragh  ;  outside  the  limits  of  the  graveyard 
there  have  been,  and  still  are  found  throughout  the  field  continually, 
human  bones,  and  the  tradition  in  that  locality  is,  that  a  battle  had  been 
fought  on  that  field.  The  coin  was  turned  up  when  a  portion  of  the  circu- 
lar fence  was  being  levelled.  The  happy  finder  of  the  coin  could  scarcely 
believe  the  pound  notes  to  be  real,  when  I  handed  him  the  sum  you  ob- 
tained for  it,  viz.,  £2  125.  6<Z." 

The  following  papers  were  submitted  to  the  Members: — 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  JOURNAL  OF  THOMAS  DINELEY, 
ESQUIRE,  GIVING  SOME  ACCOUNT  OF  HIS  VISIT  TO 
IRELAND  IN  THE  REIGN  OF  CHARLES  II. 

COMMUNICATED  BY  EVELYN  PHILIP  SHIRLEY,  ESQ.,  M.  A.,  WITH 
NOTES  BY  THE  HON.  ROBERT  O'BRIEN,  AND  THE  REV.  JAMES 
GRAVES. 

(^Continued  from  Vol.  V.,  New  Series,  p.  446.) 

GENTLEMENS  Seats,  Castles,  and  Places  near  this  Town,  are  these 
following,  viz.,  within  a  quarter  of  [a]  mile. 

That  Castle  belonging  to  Henry  Ivers,1  Esq.,  well  scituate  and 
capable  of  very  considerable  improvement,  a  draught  whereof  I 
took  on  the  other  side  this  leafe.  It  is  five  miles  and  three  quarters 
distant  from  Limerick. 

i  Henry  Ivers,  Gent.,  appears  in  Dr.  was  appointed  agent  to  Colonel  Daniel 

Petty's  Census,  1659,  as  a  "  Titulado"  O'Brien,  3rd  Viscount  Clare,  from  whom 

at  Ballymolony,  in  the  parish  of  Killo-  he  obtained  leases  of  a  considerable  ex- 

kennedy.  tent  of  land. 

On  21st  June,  30°Chas.IL,  heobtained          He  was  married  to  the  daughter  of 

a  patent  of  Ballyluddane  East,  adjoining  Captain  Stephens,  of  Ballysheen,  in  the 

Six  Mile  Bridge,  with  power  to  hold  a  county  Clare,  and  was  appointed  Justice 

Saturday  market,  and  two  fairs  yearly  of  the  Peace  for  that  county  in  1669, 

on  part  of  the  land  called  Bally rella,  and  High  Sheriff  in  1673.     He  was  suc- 

alias  Mount  Ivers.  ceeded  by  his  son  John,  who  was  elected 

By  this  patent,    and  others  bearing  Member  of  Parliament  for  the   county 

date  17th  June,  19°  Chas.  II.,  and  27th  in  1715. 

November,  30°  Chas.  II.,  he  was  granted          Although  the  great  bulk  of  the  estate 

altogether  5773  acres,  statute  measure  has   passed  away  from  the  family,  yet 

profitable,  which  carried  a  larger  ex-  his  descendant,  Robert  Ivers,  Esq.,  still 

tent  of  unprofitable  acres.     In  1668  he  resides  at  Mount  Ivers.— O'B. 


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The  gentleman,  owner  hereof,  came  over  (a  young  man,  clerk  to 
one  Mr.  Fowles,3  a  Barrister),  since  the  King's  Restoration,  and 
hath  in  this  time  by  his  Industry,  acquired  one  Thousand  pounds  a 
veer  The  first  and  chiefest  of  his  rise  was  occasioned  by  being 
concerned  in  the  Revenue  as  Clerk  to  the  King's  Commissioners  for 
settling  the  Quit  Rents,  and  afterwards  became  their  Deputy  re- 
ceiver, is  now  in  Commission  one  of  his  Maties  Justices  of  the  Peace, 
not  worth  less  than  sixteen  hundred  pounds  a  year. 

A  mile  distant  from  Six  mile  Bridg,3  on  the  other  side  the 
river  from  hence,  is  an  Estate  lately  purchased  from  Mr.  Tiege 
O'Brien,4  by  a  very  worthy  Gentleman,  Mr.  Hugh  Percivall,6  who 
beareth  for  Coat  Armor  this. 

[Here  in  the  MS.  is  a  drawing  of  the  shield  described.] 

Sable,  a  Horse  passant  Argent,  Spanceled  on  both  leggs  of 
the  neerer  side  Gules,  by  the  name  of  Percivall.  Yet  the  vulgar 
and  most  usuall  way  of  spanceling,  not  onely  of  Horses,  but  black 
Cattle,  viz.,  Cows,  &c.,  in  this  Countrey,  is  by  joining  the1  fore 


»  The  lands  of  Tarbert,  county  Kerry, 
were,  in  1666,  possessed  by  Cornet  John 
Cooper,  of  Bunratty,  a  Cromwellian 
officer,  to  whom  the  mother  of  Sir 
Donat  O'Brien,  of  Dromoland,  was 
married,  by  which  means  the  estates 
were  rescued  at  the  general  confisca- 
tion. Thomas  Fowle,  of  Dublin,  ob- 
tained a  judgment  for  £1800  principal, 
against  Cooper,  on  which  execution  by 
elegit  was  issued  to  the  Sheriff  of  Kerry : 
upon  an  inquisition  held  at  Carrigfoyle, 
a  moiety  of  the  lands  of  Tarbert  were 
seized  by  the  Sheriff  for  said  Thomas 
Fowle. 

Afterwards  Laurence  Steele,  as  exe- 
cutor for  Fowle,  let  the  said  moiety  to 
Henry  Ivors  at  £100  per  annum,  to  be 
paid  at  Strongbow's  tomb O'B. 

3  This  town  is  situated  on  both  sides 
of  the  O'Gearna  river,  at  a  distance  of 
six  Irish  miles  from  Limerick,  by  the  old 
road  across  the  mountain. 

Here  was  formerly  Castle  Droichel, 
built  by  Murrogh  Mac  Turlogh  O'Brien, 
and  the  west  side  of  the  river  is  in- 
cluded in  the  Earl  of  Thomond's  patent 
of  1620. 

The  Earls  of  Thomond  were  anxious 
to  encourage  Protestant  settlers  on  their 
estates,  and  several  of  the  Earl's  tenants, 
and  of  the  new  patentees,  had  houses  in 
this  town. 

The  rents  paid  in  1675  for  houses  and 
plots  of  ground  bear  a  very  high  pro- 
portion compared  to  the  value  of  farms. 
£10  a  year  for  a  houso  and  shop,  with  a 


covenant  to  rebuild,  and  £52  a  year  for 
a  malt-house,  represent  the  rents  paid 
for  considerable  extents  of  land,  even  in 
the  vicinity  of  Six  Mile  Bridge.— O'B. 

4  Teige  O'Brien,  in  1656,  was,  jointly 
with  Giles  Vandeleur,  tenant  to  the  Earl 
of  Thomond  for  the  six  plowlands  of 
Moihill,  near  Six  Mile  Bridge,  at  £70  a 
year  rent.  Giles  Vandeleur  alone  ob- 
tained a  renewal  of  this  lease  in  1675. 

Teige  O'Brien  had  also  obtained  a 
patent  of  some  land  near  Tulla ;  but, 
having  acted  as  lieutenant  in  Lord 
Clare's  infantry  in  1688,  he  was  at- 
tainted, and  his  estate  forfeited.— O'B. 

6  On  25th  June,  1668,  Lord  Clare  exe- 
cuted a  mortgage  on  his  estate  in  the 
barony  of  Moyarta,  &c.,  in  county  of 
Clare,  to  Dyonisia  Yeamans  for  £1742, 
which  was  assigned  to  Hugh  Persi- 
vale.  In  1674,  Lord  Clare  granted  a  lease 
to  Hugh  Percival,  of  Kinsale,  in  the 
county  of  Cork,  of  certain  lands  in  the 
barony  of  Moyarta,  further  to  secure 
the  said  mortgage.  After  the  forfeiture 
of  Lord  Clare's  estates,  a  claim  was 
lodged  at  Chichester  House  for  the 
amount  of  the  mortgage  by  James  Clark, 
on  behalf  of  Dixy  Percival,  a  minor,  son 
of  Hugh. 

The  family  of  Perceval  were  origi- 
nally from  France,  and  came  to  England 
at  the  time  of  the  Norman  Conquest. 
The  crest  borne  by  one  branch  of  the 
family  was  the  spancelled  horse,  being 
a  canting  play  on  the  French  name  for 
a  horse. — O'B. 


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leggs  together  by  Gads  or  Withs  twisted,  which,  see  page  [  ]. 
And  by  this  ye  horse  cannot  move  or  gain  ever  so  little  ground 
but  by  a  galloping  step,  jump,  or  stretch.  Now,  an  Horse  by  his 


MOUNT  IYER'S  CASTLED 
Belonging  to  Henry  Ivers,  Esq. 

A.  Rosmongher.?      B.  Buratty.     C.  Cappar  Castle.8      D.  Six-mile  bridg  Town. 
E.  The  Six-mile  bridg  River.     F.  The  wood  of  the  Oyl  Mills.9 

nature  is  rather  won  to  this  by  tractable  usage  than  forced,  for 
such  is  the  horses  brisk  and  sprightly  nature,  and  of  all  other  noble 


6  Mount  Ivers  Castle. — Section  234  of 
the  Act  of  Explanation,  17  &  18°  Chas. 
II.,  cap.  2,  provides  that  new  names 
more  suitable  to  the  English  tongue 
should  be  inserted  in  the  letters  patent, 
with  an  alias. 

The  name  of  Ballyluddane  East  was 
then  changed  into  Mount  Ivers,  and  has 
so  continued. 

There  are  still  visible  some  founda- 
tions of  the  old  castle ;  but  most  of  the 
stones  were  worked  into  the  modern 


mansion-house. — O'B. 

7  Rosmanagher  Castle  is  said  to  have 
been  built  by  John  M'Mahon-M'Donagh 
M'Namara,  but  was  returned  in  1570 
as  one  of  the  castles  of  the  Earl  of 
Thomond. 

Rossemoneherr,  with  two  quarters  of 
land,  were  included  in  the  patent  of  19° 
James  I.  to  Donough,  Earl  of  Thomond. 
When  Bunratty  was,  in  1646,  besieged 
by  the  confederate  army,  a  part  of  which 
was  encamped  at  Six  Mile  Bridge,  Ros- 


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spirited  animals,  that  to  bring  them  to  conformity  must  be  rather 
by  gentell  handling  than  severity,  according  to  the  true  saying  of 
Seneca,  Generosus  animus  facilius  ducitur  quam  trahitur.  For  it  is 
with  the  irrational  animals  as  with  the  rational,  who  are  rather 
drawn  by  the  Ears  than  by  the  Cloak.  That  is,  they  are  sooner 
won  by  perswasion,  than  forced  by  compulsion,  wch  being  taken  in 
this  sence,  the  imposition  of  this  artificial  note  of  restraint  doth 
no  way  derogate  from  ye  worth  of  the  bearer.  It  is  observed  of 
the  Horse  (as  also  of  other  whole  footed  beasts),  that  their  leggs 
are  at  the  first  as  long  as  ever  the  will  be,  and  therefore  yong 
foales  scratch  their  Ears  with  their  hinder  foot,  which  after  they 
cannot  do,  because  their  legs  do  grow  onely  in  bigness  but  not  in 
length.  Plin.  lib.  ii.,  cap.  48.  The  Horse  is  a,  beast  naturally 
stubborn,  fierce,  HAUTY,  proud,  and  insolent;  and  of  all  beasts 
there  is  none  that  vaunteth  more  after  Victory,  or  dejected  if  over- 
come ;  none  more  prone  in  battell  or  desirous  of  reveng. 

Three  miles  from  Six-mile  Bridge,  9  from  Limerick,  and  7  from 
Ennis,  neer  the  road  between  Limerick  and  Galloway,  wch  city 
stands  27  miles  off,  is 

Ballicar  Castle,9  belonging  to  John  Colpoys,  Esqr.,  whose  pros- 


managher  Castle   was  occupied  by  a 
party   from    Bunratty    under    Captain 
Hunt ;  but  they  were  compelled  to  sur 
render  to  the  Confederates  on  the  13th 
of  May. 

Abraham  Dester,  on  the  22nd  of  De- 
cember, 1675,  obtained  a  lease  from  the 
Earl  of  Thomond  of  the  castle,  and  two 
plowlands,  at  £103  10s.  rent.  Thislease 
contained  a  covenant  that  the  lessee 
should  at  general  hostings  send  a  Pro- 
testant horseman,  with  a  good  horse, 
sword,  and  case  of  pistols,  provided  for 
a  month  to  attend  the  Earl.  This  lease 
was  afterwards  converted  into  a  fee 
farm,  and  the  lands  still  belong  to  the 
same  family,  who  have  assumed  the 
name  of  D'Esterre. 

The  tower  of  the  castle  still  remains 
in  a  tolerably  perfect  state.— O'B. 

8  Canpagh  Castle  was  said  to  have  been 
built  by  Convca  M'Cumara-M'Shane- 
M'Namara,  and  was  returned  in  1570 
as  belonging  to  Shane  M'Namara. 

Cappagh,  with  four  plowlands,  was 
passed  in  the  Earl  of  Thomond' s  patent 
of  1620. 

During  the  siege  of  Bunratty,  Colonel 
M'Adam  placed  some  musketeers  there, 
under  Sergeant  Morgan,  who  were  cap- 
tured by  the  confederates  on  the  13th 
of  May. 

The  foundations  only  of  this  castle 


now  appear,  the  stones  having  been 
removed  for  building  a  house  near  it. 
Here  was  the  manor  mill  of  Bunratty, 
to  which  all  the  tenants  on  that  manor  of 
the  Earl  of  Thomond  were  bound  to  send 
their  corn  to  be  ground.  It  was  a  wind- 
mill, situated  on  a  high  point  of  land. 
Some  old  millstones  still  mark  the  site. — 
O'B. 

9  The  Wood  of  the  Oyl  Mills The 

site  of  the  Oil  Mills  is  near  the  junction 
of  the  fresh  water  with  the  tidal  part  of 
the  river.  No  part  of  the  ancient  wood 
now  remains. — O'B. 

1  Ballycar  Castle  was  said  to  have 
been  built  by  Connor  M'Hugh-M'Logh- 
lin-M'Namara,  but  does  not  appear 
among  the  list  of  castles  in  1570. 

The  Castle,  and  two  plowlands,  of 
Ballycarhy  were  passed  in  the  Earl  of 
Thomond  s  patent  of  1620. 

In  1655,  a  lease  of  Ballycar  Castle, 
&c.,  "  as  heretofore  held  by  George  Col- 
poys, deceased,"  was  made  by  the  Earl 
of  Thomond  to  John  Colpoys,  with  the 
condition  to  supply  an  armed  Protes- 
tant horseman,  provided  for  a  month. 
This  lease  was  converted  in  1714  into  a 
fee  farm,  and  has  now  passed  to  heirs 
female. 

The  castle  has  disappeared,  and  the 
dwelling-house,  not  long  since  occupied 
by  John  Colpoys,  a  true-hearted  gentle- 


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pect  I  have  sketcht  off  on  the  other  side  ;  this  is  part  of  the  Estate 
of  ye  Rl  Honble  Henry  Earle  of  Thomond,  in  the  Barony  of  Bun- 
ratty,  in  the  Parish  of  Tomenlagh. 

InBoggs  here,  as  in  most  parts  of  Ireland,  in  digging  for  Turf, 
are  found  large  firr  Trees,  and  particularly  in  the  Bishoprick  of 
Cloyne,  in  the  county  of  Corke,  and  Province  of  Munster  ;  in  the 
Boggs  are  found  such  quantities  of  Firr  timber  trees  that  they 
make  benches,  tables,  wainscoat,  and  floor  Roomes  therewith  ; 
they  use  it  also  so  much  for  fewell  that  the  town  smells  of  Tur- 
pentine. 

Ballicarr  Lough  aboundes  in  Eeles  and  Trouts,  especially  of  a 
stupendious  largenes  for  such  as  Trouts,  of  30  and  24  inches  in 
length,  which  very  commenly  have  bin  tooke  here. 


The  South-East  Prospect  of  Ballicar  Castle. 
D.  Rathfoelane.io 

It  is  discoursed  also,  and  by  very  credible  persons,  that  at 
Muyree  Castle,  in  this  county  of  Clare,  towards  Gralloway  side,  was 
taken  a  prodigious  Pike  with  two  Ducks  in  its  Gorge  or  Belly,  one 


man,  an  upright  and  popular  magistrate, 
and  thorough  sportsman,  is  now  a  roof- 
less ruin. — O'B. 

10  Rathfolan  Castle,  alleged  to  have  been 
built  by  Loghlin  M'Sheeda-M'Teige- 
M'Namara,  was  returned  in  1570  as  the 
property  of  Donough  O'Brien,  of  Dro- 
moland,  third  son  of  the  first  Earl  of 
Thomond  and  Baron  Inchiquin. 

It  afterwards  passed  to  a  family  of 
the  M'Namaras,  and  in  1641  was  in  the* 
possession  of  John  M'Namara,  who  had 
other  estates  in  the  same  barony.  Dur- 
ing the  Protectorate  of  Cromwell  he 


was  ejected,  and  Henry  Colpoys  was 
located  in  the  castle. 

At  the  Restoration  it  was  granted  to 
Daniel  M'Namara,  one  of  the  eight  of 
that  name  who  received  grants  of  land 
out  of  the  eighty- three  M'Namaras  who 
had  been  proprietors  in  that  barony  of 
Bunratty  in  1641. 

It  was  again  forfeited,  in  1688,  and 
sold  to  Sir  Donat  O'Brien,  of  Dromo- 
land. 

The  last  remaining  wall  of  the  castle 
fell  about  thirty  years  ago  ;  but  a  heap 
of  ruins  marks  the  site — O'B. 


M 


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whereof  was  so  fresh,  that  took  out  and  roasted  prov'd  a  very  good 


n    that  upon  the  riseing  of  the  water  of  a  lough,  and  over- 
flowing some  meadows,  3  Pikes  were  shott  at  once  graze.ng. 


That  at  such  times  they  do  eat  grass,  is  very  certain,  and  ob- 
served by  severall. 

11  Clar-more  probably  gave  its  name  to       under  the  rule  of  the  Earls  of  Thomond, 
the  county  of  Clare  in  1670,  it  having 


previous  to  that  been  called  Thomond, 
the  Irish  laws  having  continued  in  force 


and  Clare  castle  was  one  of  the  demesne 
castles  of  the  Chief  of  Thomond  for  the 
time  being. 


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The  larger  the  Pike  the  coarser  the  food,  the  smaller  being  the 
best,  contrary  to  the  nature  of  Eeles,  which  improve  their  goodness 
by  their  bulk  and  age. 

[Here  follows  statement  about  the  fish  called  Sargus,  which  is 
unfit  to  print.] 

CASTLE-MAINE  in  Connolough,  Anno  1600,  in  the  Reigne  of 
Queen  Elizabeth,  being  inhabited  by  a  Rebell,  and  whose  ruines 
are  seen  at  this  day,  was  taken  by  Sr  Francis  Berkley,  and  in  it 
store  of  booty.  This  is  not  farr  off  from  the  Castle  of  Askeyton, 
which  I  have  toucht  off  following.  Castlemain  is  an  Earldome. 

ASKEATON    CASTLE.12 

[Here  is  given  by  Dineley  a  view  of  Askeaton  Castle  fromPacata 
Hibernia,  p.  52.] 

Anno  1600,  June  5.  This  Castle  was  gained  from  the  Rebells 
by  500  men  under  the  Comand  of  Sr  Francis  Berkley,  which  forces 
of  Queen  Elizabth  were  sent  from  Limerick  thither  by  water. 

Aug.  23,  the  same  yeer.  The.  Re.  Honble.  the  Earle  of  Tho- 
mond  then,  was  intreated  by  the  Lord  president  of  Munster,  Carew, 
to  Comand  this  Garrison  of  Askeiton,  both  to  check  such  Rebells 
as  should  lurk  in  the  woods,  and  to  preserve  the  goods  of  those 
that  became  honest  subjects  of  the  Queen,  for  it  was  the  custome 
of  the  Irish  then,  that  had  they  lost  but  a  few  cattle,  they  would 

When  Donnell  More  O'Brien,  on  the  Connaught.       The   year   following    Sir 

death  of  his  brother,  the  second  Earl  of  Edward   Fy tton  had  his  revenge,    and 

Thomond,  in  1558,  being  Tanist,  and  fol-  deprived  the  Earl  of  the  Castle  of  Clare  ; 

lowing  the  ancient  custom  of  the  coun-  but  it  was  subsequently  restored  to  him, 

try,  was  inaugurated  Prince  of  Thomond,  and  has  remained  ever  since  a  part  of 

he  took  possession  of  Clare  Castle  ;  but  the  property,  though  leased  in  fee  farm. 

Connor,  the  third  Earl,  who  claimed,  ac-  It  is  now  used  as  a  military  barrack, 

cording  to  the  English  law  of  primo-  and  the  round  and  high  square  tower 

geniture,  to  succeed  his  father,  invoked  joining   it,  though  now  reduced  to  the 

the  aid  of  the  Queen,  and  the  Earl  of  same  level,  are  in  good  preservation. — 

Sussex  was  sent  into  Clare ;  and,  having  O'B. 

evicted  Donnell  More,  he  restored  Clare  12  The  ancient  name  of  Askeaton  was 

Castle  and  Bunratty  to  the  Earl.  Imkesty,    and    appears   to    have    been 

In  1570,  when  Sir  Edward  Fytton  vested  in  Lord  Thomas  de  Clare,  who 
endeavoured  to  introduce  the  English  married  Juliana,  daughter  of  Maurice 
laws  into  the  newly-formed  county  of  Fitz  Gerald,  third  Baron  Offaley,  in 
Clare,  arid  proclaimed  a  Sessions  at  1276;  Lord  Offaley,  from  whom  the 
Ennis  for  the  purpose,  the  Earl  of  Tho-  Earls  of  Desmond  possessed  the  greater 
mond,  then  at  Clare  Castle,  unwilling  to  part  of  the  county  of  Limerick,  1322, 
submit  to  the  laws  which  deprived  him  15°  Edw.  II.  The  king  assigned  to  Ro- 
of his  rule  as  chieftain,  not  only  made  bert  de  Well  and  Matilda  his  wife,  one 
prisoners  of  Fytton's  messengerSj  but  of  the  heirs  of  Thomas  de  Clare  (Junr., 
drove  him  out  of  the  county,  the  newly-  killed  at  Dysert  O'Dea,  1317),  the  castle 
appointed  Sheriff  acting  as  his  guide  manor,  and  barony  of  Imkisty,  with  its 
through  the  difficult  passes  leading  into  appurtenances,  at  £14  1«.  \\d.  rent. 


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have  reckon'd  it  a  sufficient  cause  for  Rebellion  against  their  liege 
Princess  whom  they  grally  [generally]  hated. 

CAHIR  CASTLE,  in  the  Province  of  Mounster,  and  which  1  have 
touched  off  on  the  other  side,  was  taken  for  Q.  Eliz.  of  blessed  me- 
mory by  11.  Devereux,  E.  of  Essex,  then  Lrd  Deputy,  Anno  Dm 
1599,  being  his  onely  remarkeable  action13  towards  subdueing  of  the 
Kebells  oOIounster,  wch  Province  was  then  look't  upon  to  be  the 
Key  of  the  Kingdome  for  its  cities  and  Towns  wall'd,  which  are 
more  numerous  than  in  ye  rest  of  Ireland,  besides  the  Fertility 
thereof  as  reckon'd  the  Garden  of  this  Isle,  and  the  convenient 
Harbour  lying  open  to  Spain  and  France.  When  ye  Earle  of  Essex 
took  Cahir  Castle  he  received  the  Lord  of  Cahir,  [  ]  the  Lord 
Koche,  and  some  others  into  the  Protection  of  the  Queen,  who 
upon  turning  of  his  back  for  England  both  openly  and  secretly  be- 
came Rebells  again.  The  8th  of  May,  1600,  it  was  kept  by  Sr  John 
Dowdtill  under  the  President  Carew,  with  a  ward  out  of  Sr  George 
Blounts  souldiers;  upon  ye  23d  of  the  same  month  it  was  surprized 
by  James  Galdie  ats  Butler,  brother  to  the  Lord  of  Cahir. 

James  Galdie  took  it  after  this  manner  with  threescore  men  : 
coming  undiscovered  to  the  Wall  of  the  Bawne  of  Cahir  Castle 
with  Masons  and  Pioneers,  broke  holes  in  the  weakest  part  of  the 
Wall,  gott  in  and  entered  the  Hall  before  they  were  perceived, 
yett  some  resistance  was  made  by  Thomas  Quayle,  a  serjeant,  who 
was  wounded.  Three  of  the  Castle  guard  were  slayne,  and  the 
rest  render'd  their  arms  upon  promise  of  life  onely,  and  were  sent 
to  Clonmell  in  yc  County  Palatine  of  Tipperary,  where  they  were 
imprisoned  untill  the  President  had  time  to  trye  the  by  a  Court 
Marshall. 

In  this  Castle,  when  taken  [were]  great  Ordnance,  a  Cannon, 
and  Culverin,  left  there  by  the  Earle  of  Essex,  when  he  took  it, 
which  was  Anno  Dom.  1599. 

CAHIU,  OR  CAHKR  CASTLE. 

[Here  is  given  by  Dineley  a  view  of  Caher  Castle  from  Pacata 
Hibernia,  p.  42.] 

Five  miles  from  Six-mile  bridge,  11  from  Limerick,  8  from 
Ennis ;  and  3  miles  from  Rathlahine  Castle,  is  Ballyclogh  Castle, 

"  This  is  true.  Cahir  Castle  is  still  in  of  Portlaw,  who  takes  admirable  care 

admirable  preservation,  and  complete  of  this   ancient   fortress.      It  is  to  be 

in    all    its    parts — enciente,    bastions,  remarked   that  the  banqueting  hall  is 

towers,  keep,  outer  and  inner  ballium,  a  restoration  by  the  late  Lord  Glengall, 

outer  and  inner  gateways,  portcullis-  and  that  the  date  he  has  assigned,  on 

groove,  &c.  It  is  a  structure  well  worthy  a  tablet,  for  the  erection  of  the  castle, 

of  the  study  of  the  military  antiquary.  is  too  early  by  at  least  three  hundred 

The  present  owner  is  Mr.  Malcomson  years.— J.  G. 


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held  for  3  lives  by  Tho.  Cullen,14  Esqr,  Justice  of  the  Peace,  of  Sr. 
Henry  Ingoldsby.  This  Castle  is  adorned  with  some  moderne 
building  according  to  the  sketch  on  the  other  side  this  leafe. 


Besides  this  are  3  Castles  more  in  this  Kingdome,  wch  go  by 
the  name  of  Ballyclogh,  viz*,  two  in  the  County  of  Limerick,  one 


^Ballynacloghy  Castle,now  Stone  Hall, 
is  said  to  have  been  built  by  Donogh- 
M'Connor-M'Murtogh-Clanchy,  and  in 
1570  was  returned  as  the  property  of 
Teige  M'Glanshy. 

The  M'Clanchys,  or  Clanchys,  were 
the  hereditary  Brehons,  judges,  or  law- 
yers of  Thomond,  and  many  documents 
still  exist  attested  by  members  of  that 
family. 


Before  1641,  Ballyclough  passed  into 
the  hands  of  Nicholas  Fanning,  whose 
estates  were  forfeited,  and  Thomas  Cul- 
len, Esq.,  installed  there  as  "  Titulado" 
in  1656,  having  been  appointed  justice 
of  the  peace  under  Cromwell. 

Captain  Thomas  Cullen  was  one  of  a 
Civil  Survey  Jury  at  an  Inquisition  held 
in  Clare  on  2nd  March,  1635. 

Thomas  Cullen,  on  1st  May,  30°  Char- 


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belonging  to  Lieut'.  Col.  Eaton    another  to  Quartermaster  Whit- 
roe,  &  a  3d  to  Mr.  Pordam,  m  the  County  of  Cork. 


RATHLAHINE    CASTLE.IS — An    ancient  Castle   built   by  John 
Mac  Namarra,  Esqr.,  it  is  founded  upon  and  among  Rocks.    It  be- 


les  II.,  obtained  a  patent  of  the  lands  of 
Ballyline  more;  and,  in  1687,  he  and  his 
wife  settled  their  property  by  deed  upon 
Bridget  Crosby,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Crosby,  on  her  marriage  with  Philip 
Morgall. 

After  the  Restoration,  Ballyclough, 
with  a  large  extent  of  property  in  Clare, 
was  granted  to  Sir  Henry  Ingoldsby, 
Bart. ;  and  Stone  Hall  having  been  ac- 
quired by  Sir  Donat  O'Brien,  he  set- 


tled it  on  his  sons  by  his  second  mar- 
riage, with  large  estates.  This  family 
selected  Stone  Hall  as  their  residence, 
till  they  removed  to  Blatherwyche  Park, 
Northamptonshire.  The  castle  no  lon- 
ger exists,  and  the  dwelling-house  is  in 
ruins. — O'B. 

is  Rathlaheen  Castle  is  stated  to  have 
been  built  by  Teige  M'Convea-M'Macon- 
M'Namara;  but,  in  1570,  was  returned 
as  one  of  the  castles  of  the  Earl  of  Tho- 


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longed  since  to  Sr.  William  King,  Governor  of  Limerick,  and  is 
now  in  the  Hands  of  Giles  Vanderlure,16  Esqr.,  who  hath  built  unto 
it  the  fairest  stable  of  the  Countye. 

Twelve  Miles  from  Rallahine,  neer  Killaloo,  worthy  the  sight 
of  the  curious,  is  an  Island  called 

ENNISH  CALTRA.17 — This  is  two  small  miles  about,  in  the  Shan- 
non River,  in  which  are  seen  the  remaines  of  seven  Churches  called 
the  7  Churches  of  Asia.  Here,  once  a  yeer,  the  superstitious  Irish 
go  to  do  pennance,  and  are  enjoined  to  walk  round  barefooted  7 
times,  and  they  who  fear  hurting  their  feet,  hire  others  to  do  it ; 
here  is  a  great  concourse  of  both  sexes.  This  Island,  by  some,  is 
called  Insula  Sanctorum,  a  name  which  hath  bin  applicable  to  All 
Ireland. 

ISLANDS,  Parcel  of  Lands  belonging  to  the  R*.  Honble  Henry 
Earle  of  Thomond,18  touched  off  from  Paradise  hill. 


mond.  This  castle  was  the  property  of 
John  M'Namara  in  1641,  who  had  other 
estates  in  the  barony  of  Bunratty,  which 
were  all  forfeited.  It  was  granted  to 
Sir  Henry  Ingoldsby  on  27th  July,  18° 
Chas.  II.,  not  Sir  William  King,  from 
whom  it  passed  to  Giles  Vandeleur,  and 
his  heirs.  The  castle  is  still  tolerably 
perfect.  Sir  William  King  was  not  pa- 
tentee of  any  land  in  the  barony  of 
Bunratty.— O'B. 

16  Giles  Vaudeleur's  name  appears  on 
the  back  of  a  deed  registered  in  the  Peace 
Office,  Limerick,  during  Cromwell's 
time,  and  he  obtained  a  lease  from  the 
Earl  of  Thomond  of  the  six  plowlands  of 
Moihill,  near  Six  Mile  Bridge,  in  which 
town  he  had  a  house,  but  in  the  Petty 
Census  of  1656,  he  appears  as  "  Titu- 
lado"  at  Moihill. 

Giles  Vandeleur  was  one  of  the  Com- 
missioners for  applotting  quit  rents,  and 
was  High  Sheriff  for  the  county  in  1665. 

He  likewise  obtained  a  lease  from  the 
Earl  of  Thomond  of  lands  in  the  barony 
of  Moyarta,  and  his  second  son  John 
was  Rector  of  Kilrush,  and  purchased 
the  estates,  now  enjoyed  by  his  descend- 
ant, Colonel  Crofton  Moore  Vandeleur, 
M.P. 

The  senior  branch  of  this  family  were 
settled  at  Ralahine,  which  has  passed 
to  heirs  female. 

Their  grandfather,  Mr.  John  Vande- 
leur, having  adopted  the  principles  of 
Socialism  promulgated  by  Robert  Owen, 
placed  some  labourers  in  his  extensive 
offices,  agreeing  to  divide  all  profits  in 
certain  proportions  with  them.  One  of 
the  forms  to  which  their  industry  was 


applied  was  the  removal  of  the  surface 
rocks,  the  maiden  earth  proving  very 
favourable  for  the  cultivation  of  the 
potato.  His  system  soon  broke  down, 
the  labourers  preferring  fixed  wages. — 
O'B. 

17  Inis  Cealtra  Island  is  situate  in  Sca- 
riff  Bay,  on  Lough  Derg,  and  soon  after 
the  introduction  of  Christianity  was  se- 
lected for  an  ecclesiastical  settlement. 

In  653,  a  monastery  and  church  were 
erected  there  by  St.  Caimin,  from  which 
the  church  was  called  Temple  Caimin, 
and  his  festival  was  observed  on  the  24th 
of  March.  Cosgrach,  surnamed  Tuoa- 
ghan  (the  meagre),  died  here  in  898, 
having  occupied  the  Round  Tower  for 
the  purpose  of  carrying  out  his  peniten- 
tial austerities,  from  whence  it  has  been 
named  the  anchorite's  tower. 

This  island  was  plundered  at  different 
times  by  the  Danes,  but  was  restored  by 
Brian  Boiromhe. 

Like  most  of  the  chief  Church  Settle- 
lements  of  the  Celtic  Church  in  Ireland 
the  abbots  are  sometimes  called  bishops ; 
and,  in  1010,  it  appears  united  to  the  bi- 
shopricks  of  Killaloe  and  Terryglass, 
with  the  former  of  which  it  was  proba- 
bly permanently  united  at  the  Synod  of 
Rathbraissell,  in  1118. 

The  island  formerly  belonged  to  the 
county  of  Clare,  but  is  now  annexed  to 
Gal  way,  the  parish  of  Inishcaltra  being 
divided  between  both  counties. 

The  ruins  of  the  Seven  Churches  are 
still  to  be  seen,  and  the  Round  Tower  is 
in  good  preservation. — O'B. 

18  Henry,  the  second  of  that  name  suc- 
ceeded as    seventh  Earl  of  Thomond, 


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ENNISH  MACONY,"  is  at  present  the  Interest  of  the  Officers  of 
the  1649  security.  This  Island  is  in  the  County  of  Thomond,  and 

CON  Y  ISLAND20  took  its  name  from  the  great  number  of  Rabbits 
arid  Coneys  there  ;  in  it  is  seen  the  ruines  of  an  ancient  Chappel, 
but  without  monument  or  Inscripcon. 

Coverhane  Castle21  was  the  seate  and  abode  ot  Menry,  the  nrst 
Earle  of  Thomond,  during  the  life  of  his  father,  the  great  Donnagh 
O'Brien  Earle  of  Thomond. 

DEER  ISLAND."  In  the  County  of  Clare  and  Barony  of  Glon- 
derala  and  Parish  of  Kilchrist,  heretofore  called  Innish  Moor. 

INNISH  CHIRKEY,  an  Island  257  acres  profitable,  parish  of  Kil- 
dicert  in  Clonderala  Barony,  County  of  Clare. 

Deer  Islands  Lodge  is  built  out  of  the  ruines  of  a  Church  or 
Chappel.  Among  memorable  accidents  here  wrote  upon  the  door 
of  the  bedchamber  of  the  Rl.  Honble.  Henry  Earle  of  Thomond  are 
these,  with  these  dates  :— 


1657 ;  he  was  married  first  to  his  cousin, 
Lady  Anne  O'Brien,  daughter  of  Henry, 
fifth  Earl  of  Thomond. 

He  married,  secondly,  Sarah  Russell, 
third  daughter  of  Sir  Francis  Russell, 
of  Chippenham,  Cambridge,  widow  of 
the  Cromwellian  general  Reynolds,  who 
had  left  her  very  rich,  she  having  com- 
pounded with  his  heirs-at-law  for  £5000 
a  year,  and  what  arrears  were  due  in 
Ireland.  Her  sister  was  married  to 
Henry  Cromwell,  through  whose  in- 
fluence the  Earl  was  allowed  to  enter 
into  possession  of  his  estates  before  the 
Restoration. 

He  resided  at  Great  Billing,  in  North- 
amptonshire, and,  being  a  Protestant, 
his  estates  escaped  the  general  forfei- 
ture, in  which  almost  the  entire  of  the 
county  of  Clare  was  subjected. 

In  Royal  fashion,  in  the  documents  of 
the  day,  he  is  styled  Henry  the  Second, 
Earl  of  Thomond,  as  may  also  be  seen 
on  the  monument  in  Limerick  Cathedral, 
which  is  generally  read  to  be  the  second 
Earl,  whereas  he  was  the  seventh  Earl  of 
Thomond.— O'B. 

19  Now  Inishmacowney ,  in  the  barony  of 
Clonderalaw,  and  was,  in  1641,  the  pro- 
perty of  Gabriel  Gallway. 

It  was  granted,  19°  Chas.  II.,  to  the 
Earls  of  Ossory  and  Arran,  and  Sir 
Arthur  Gore,  Bart.,  in  trust  for  the  1649 
officers. 

It  contains  225  statute  acres,  and  is 
now  the  property  of  Colonel  Vandeleur, 


of  Kilrush  House.— O'B. 

20  Coney  Island  is  now  in  the  barony  of 
Clonderalaw,  and  contains  225  statute 
acres ;  but,  by  the  Down  Survey,  it  was 
in  the  barony  of  Islands,  and  called 
Inish-da-drom. 

It  was  a  benefice  in  itself,  and  included 
in  the  titles  of  the  Prsecentor  of  Killaloe; 
but,  in  1622,  both  the  Rectory  and  Vicar- 
age were  returned  to  the  Royal  Visitors 
as  impropriate,  in  the  gift  of  the  Earl  of 
Thomond. 

The  walls  of  the  ruined  church  are 
still  standing,  and  near  them  the  foun- 
dations of  a  still  more  ancient  church. 

Inish-da-drom  is  included  in  the  Earl 
of  Thomond's  patent  of  1620,  and  is  now 
the  property  of  Sir  John  Fitzgerald, 
K.  C.  B.  There  is  a  pointed  hill  on  the 
island,  which  rises  194  feet  above  the 
river.  Near  the  summit,  a  monument  to 
one  of  the  Fitzgerald  family  has  been 
erected. — O'B. 

2'  The  Manor  of  Crovreaghanwas  one 
of  the  seven  manors  into  which  the  Earl 
of  Thomond's  estate  in  the  county  of 
Clare,  was  divided. — O'B. 

22  Inish  More,  or  Deer  Island,  contains 
443  acres,  statute,  and  is  the  largest 
island  in  the  River  Fergus. 

This  island,  and  Inish  Carker,  form 
part  of  the  Earl  of  Thomond's  manor  of 
Crovreaghan,  but  were  claimed  before 
the  Royal  Commissioners  in  1622  by 
Bishop  Rider,  as  formerly  belonging  to 
the  See  of  Killaloe.— O'B. 


"  MDCLVI.  This  Hare  was  then  cropt  and  turn'd  into  Deer  Island ; 
and  in  MDCLXXIII,  ye  sayd  Earle  kill'd  her;  and  Anno  MDCLXXII, 
a  Buck  was  kill'd  there  weighing  16  stone  and  two  pounds." 


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CANNON  ISLAND,"  in  the  County  of  Thomond,  ats  Clare  and 
Barony  of  [          ]  in  it  are  seen  the  Ruines  of  an  ancient  Abby  of 


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Reeular  Cannorw  of  the  Rule  of  S'.  Austin,  whence  it  took  its 
nS  of  Cannon  Island,  which  in  Irish  is  Illean  ne  Cannanagh. 
The  South  side  of  BUNRATTY  Castle. 

[There  is  no  view  in  the  MS.  although  the  reference  is  given]. 

T.  Rossmonaher  Castle,  belonging  to  Mr.  de  Starr. 

This  is  the  Principall  seat  of  the  most  noble  Family  of  the 
O'Briens,  Earles  of  Thomond  adjoining  to  a  very  fair  park  with 

This  whole  County  being  a  Peninsula,  and  a  kind  of  a  Parke  all 
over,  environ'd  with  the  Shannon  River  and  the  sea,  except  a  nar- 
row'neck  in  the  county  of  Galloway,  abounding  with  staggs  and 

fallow  Deer. 

[Inthe]BARONYoflBRicHAM,25andintheBaronyofCoRCUMR026 

in  this  County  of  Clare,  both  which  Baronyes  belong  to  the  R*. 


»  Now  Paradise,  in  the  Manor  of 
Crovreaghan,  was  leased  by  the  Earl  of 
Thomond,  in  fee  farm,  to  Richard  Henn, 
and  is  now,  after  certain  vicissitudes, 
in  the  possession  of  Thomas  Rice  Henn, 
Esq. 

It  is  situated  at  the  end  of  a  steep 
hill,  overhanging  the  river,  command- 
ing beautiful  views  of  the  Fergus,  and 
its  islands,  and  an  immense  range  of 
country,  terminating  with  the  moun- 
tains of  Cork,  Limerick,  Tipperary, 
Clare,  and  Galway. 

Fort  Fergus  was  the  property  of  the 
Earl  of  Thomond,  and  leased,  in  1656, 
by  the  name  of  Rosscleave,  to  Lieut. 
George  Rosse,  who  was  one  of  the 
trustees  of  the  Earl  of  Thomond's  es- 
tates during  Cromwell's  Protectorate. 
His  descendants  assumed  the  name  of 
Ross-Lewin. — O'  B. 

24  Inishneganagh  Priory,  of  the  Order 
of  Augustin  Canons,  was  founded  here 
by  Donald  More  O'Brien,  the  last  King 
of  Limerick.  It  was  anciently  called 
Elanakanan,  and  in  the  patent  of  Henry 
VIII.,  July,  1543,  to  Donogh  O'Brien, 
afterwards  second  Earl  of  Thomond, 
creating  him  Baron  Ibrackan,  the  Mo- 
nastery of  Eleannaganaghe,  alias  the 
Island  of  the  Canons,  "as  the  said 
Donogh  now  possesses  it,"  was  granted 
to  him,  with  the  lands  and  tenements 
thereto  belonging.  As  the  Earls  of 
Thomond  possessed  the  rectorial  tithes 
of  most  of  the  parishes  in  the  barony  of 
Clonderalaw,  those,  as  well  as  a  portion 
at  least  of  the  Manor  of  Crovreaghan, 


may  have  belonged  to  this  priory. 

This  monastery  was  taxed  at  £1  6*. 
Sd.  to  the  See  of  Killaloe.  The  ruins 
are  considerable,  and  the  tower,  still 
standing,  serves  as  a  mark  for  naviga- 
ting the  river. — O'B. 

25  The  Barony  of  Ibrickane,  Hy  Bre- 
cain.  was  anciently  a  part  of  the  king- 
dom of  Corca  Bhaiscin,  which  subse- 
quently merged  in  Thomond,  the  Mac 
Mahons  becoming  chiefs  in  Clonderalaw 
and  Moyarta,  and  the  Mac  Germans  in 
Ibrickane,  and  they  appear  as  such  in 
the  submission  made  to  Richard  II.,  in 
1394. 

When  Murrough  O'Brien  surrendered 
his  principality  to  Henry  VIII.,  and 
was  created  Baron  of  Inchiquin,  with 
remainder  to  his  heirs,  and  Earl  of 
Thomond,  with  remainder  to  his  nephew, 
Donough  O'Brien,  Donough  was  also 
created  Baron  of  Ibrickane,  and  this 
barony  became  thus  a  demesne  manor, 
under  the  name  of  Moih  Ibreackan,  the 
chief  castle  whereof  was  Moick. 

By  the  "  Book  of  Distributions,"  the 
whole  barony  was,  with  the  exception 
of  one  ploughland,  the  property  of  the 
Earl  of  Thomond,  in  1641. 

The  soil  generally  is  very  poor,  but 
much  has  been  reclaimed  by  the  use  of 

sea  sand O'B. 

26  Although  a  great  deal  of  the  land 
in  the  Barony  of  Corcomroe  is  poor 
mountain,  yet  some  of  it  is  very  good. 
It  is  told  of  one  of  the  Patentees  from 
Charles  II.,  that  having  obtained  a 
grant  of  land,  he  proceeded  with  his  wife 


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Honble.  Henry  Earle  of  Thomond,  it  is  sayd  that  no  Mouse  or  Ratt 
will  live  by  any  meanes  24  hours  ;  and  it  is  likewise  given  out  that 


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to  inspect   the  land.     Having  reached       the  rocky  appearance  of  that  territory 
Confin,    he   was  so    disheartened  with       that  he  refused  to  proceed  any  further. 


88 

a  clod  or  piece  of  the  Earth  of  either  of  those  Barony  es  is  a  sufficient 
Antidote  and  preservative  placed  in  any  other  House  or  Castle  in 
this  Kingdome  against  these  Vermine. 

Over  against  Bunratty  Castle  on  the  other  side  of  the  Shannon 


His  wife,  with  more  spirit,  mounted  her 
horse,  and  took  possession  of  what  af- 
terwards proved  a  valuable  property. 

This,  and  the  Barony  of  Burren, 
formed  the  kingdom  of  Corca-Madh- 
ruadh,  tributary  to  both  Thomond  and 
Cashel.  The  O'Connors  were  kings 
here,  but  having  divided  the  territory, 
the  chiefs  of  Burren  assumed  the  name 
of  O'Loughlin;  its  extent  is  still  defined 
by  the  Diocese  of  Kilfenora.  When  the 
Earl  of  Thomond  drove  Sir  Edward 
Fytton  out  of  the  county  for  attempting 
to  hold  a  Court  of  Sessions  at  Ennis, 
the  banished  Ex-Prince,  Donald  More 
O'Brien,  was  taken  into  favour  by  the 
English,  which  led  to  a  compromise,  by 
which  he  obtained  the  chieftain's  dues 
arising  out  of  the  barony  of  Corcom- 
roe,  and  was  established  at  the  Castle 
of  Dough,  and  thus  the  last  rights  of  the 
O'Connors  were  extinguished.  Several 
of  that  name  were  proprietors  at  the 
time  of  the  forfeiture  in  1641,  but  none  of 
them  obtained  lands  at  the  Restoration. 

By  the  composition  entered  into  with 
Sir  John  Perrott,  17  August,  1585,  it 
was  covenanted  that  the  Earl  of  Tho- 
mond should  be  paid  five  shillings  out 
of  every  quarter  or  plowland  in  the 
county,  except  the  barony  of  Inchiquin, 
which  was  assigned  to  the  Lords  In- 
chiquin, in  compensation  for  the  services, 
duties,  and  cesses  to  which  the  chieftain 
was  exhibited  from  the  freeholders. 

This  composition  rent  arising  out  of 
100  quarters  in  the  barony  of  Corcom- 
roe,  the  Earl  of  Thomond  leased  to  Sir 
Turlogh  O'Brien,  who,  having  taken 
out  a  patent  of  his  lands  from  Queen 
Elizabeth,  became  the  founder  of  the 
family  of  the  O'Briens  of  Ennistvmon. — 
O'B. 

21  Bunratty  Castle.— The  first  castle 
recorded  at  Bunratty  belonged  to  Ro- 
bert de  Mucegros,  whose  daughter  and 
heir  married  Sir  William  Mortimer, 
who  by  her  obtained  the  Manor  of  Char- 
leton,  Mucegros,  and  other  lands  in 
England,  which,  they  dying  without 
issue,  passed  to  Edmund,  Lord  Mor- 
timer, of  Wigmore. 

Robert  Mucecroa,  in  1275,  surren- 
dered to  King  Edward  his  castle  of 


Bouret  in  Ireland,  "  to  defend  it  against 
the  Irish  rebels."  The  year  following, 
the  king  directed  Geoffry  de  Gyemul, 
Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  to  take  for  the 
king  the  Castle  of  Bawred,  with  the 
Cantred  of  Tradery. 

The  same  year  King  Edward  made  a 
grant  of  Thomond  to  Lord  Thomas  de 
Clare,  brother  of  the  Earl  of  Gloucester. 

De  Clare  had  held  high  offices  in 
England,  and  had  planned  and  carried 
into  effect  the  escape  of  Edward,  who, 
with  his  father  King  Henry  III.,  had 
been  made  prisoners  by  the  Earl  of 
Leicester. 

De  Clare  came  over  to  Ireland  in 
1276,  and  married  the  daughter  of  Lord 
Offaley  of  Desmond ;  when  at  Cork, 
Brian  Roe  O'Brien,  who  had  claimed 
the  principality  of  Thomond,  from 
which,  however,  he  had  been  driven  out, 
went  to  him,  and  agreed  to  secure  him 
in  the  Cantred  of  Tradery,  which  in- 
cluded a  great  part  of  the  present 
Barony  of  Lower  Bunratty,  provided 
de  Clare  would  recover  for  him  the 
Chieftainship  of  Thomond. 

Bunratty  Castle  was  occupied  by  de 
Clare,  and  a  civil  war  followed,  in  which 
Brian  Roe  O'Brien  was  aided  by  the 
Desmonds,  and  his  rival  and  lawful 
chief,  Prince  Turlogh  O'Brien,  was  as- 
sisted by  the  de  Burghos  ofGalway. 
This  struggle  was  terminated  in  1317, 
at  the  battle  of  Dysert  O'Dea,  when  De 
Clare's  son  and  grandson  were  slain, 
and  the  family  of  Brian  Roe  banished 
from  Clare. 

One  of  the-very  few  cases  of  the  kind 
recorded  in  Irish  history  occurred  at 
Bunratty,  where,  in  1353,  the  Bishop  of 
Waterford  caused  two  Irishmen  of  the 
clan  of  the  Mac  Namaras  to  be  burnt 
for  heresy. 

When  the  Earl  of  Sussex  was  sent 
into  Clare  to  uphold  the  rights  of  Con- 
nor Earl  of  Thomond,  according  to  the 
English  law,  he  having  recovered  the 
Castles  of  Bunratty  and  Clare,  placed 
Connor  in  possession,  and  from  that 
time  Bunratty  became  the  chief  seat  of 
the  Earls  of  Thomond  in  Clare. 

A  Parliamentary  fleet,  in  1646,  hav- 
ing entered  the  Shannon,  Bunratty  Cas- 


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is  a  fair  Castle  called  Carrig  O' Gunnel,28  scituate  upon  an  hill  be- 
longing to  his  Royall  Highness,  rented  by  the  present  Primate  and 
Chancellour  of  all  Ireland,  neer  which,  in  a  marie  pitt,  was  lately 


tie  was  given  up  to  them  by  the  Earl 
of  Thomond,  who  withdrew  to  England, 
where  he  and  his  successors  thencefor- 
ward generally  resided. 

The  Confederates,  then  in  possession 
of  Limerick,  were  very  anxious  to  drive 
out  the  English  from  Bunratty,  which 
was  defended  by  600  men  under  Colonel 
Me  Adam.  Being  urged  by  the  Nuncio, 
Rinuccini,  who  joined  the  camp  him- 
self, the  siege  was  commenced  in  April, 
and  the  garrison  surrendered  on  the  14 
July. 

Bunratty  was  one  of  the  Manors  of 
the  Earl  of  Thomond,  and  from  it  the 
name  of  the  Barony  was  taken  (having 
been  originally  called  Dangan-I-Vigin) 
when  Clare  was,  in  1570,  formed  into  a 
county. 

The  walls  of  the  castle  are  still  very 
perfect.  Its  position  must  have  been 
very  isolated  before  the  erection  of  the 
bridge,  and  the  embankment  of  the 
neighbouring  corcasses,  which  are  of 
great  extent. — O'B. 

*8  The  Castle  of  Carrigogunnell,  si- 
tuated on  a  basaltic  rock,  which  has 
forced  its  way  through  the  surrounding 
limestone,  forms  a  conspicuous  object 
from  Limerick  and  the  banks  of  the 
River  Shannon,  long  below  Bunratty. 

It  is  situated  in  the  Barony  of  Pubble 
Brien  and  the  Parish  of  Kilkeedy,  which, 
anciently  called  Eschluona,  was  the  ma- 
nor of  William  De  Burgho,  Governor  of 
Limerick,  in  1200,  who,  having  married 
Eva,  the  daughter  of  Donald  More 
O'Brien,  the  last  king  of  Limerick,  at- 
tempted to  set  up  a  petty  principality, 
but  was  soon  brought  to  submission  by 
Meyler  Fitz  Henry,  then  Justiciary  of 
Ireland. 

His  brother-in-law,  Donough  Cair- 
breach  O'Brien,  although  a  younger  son, 
succeeded  in  obtaining  the  chieftain- 
ship of  Thomond,  and  having  paid 
homage  to  King  John,  at  Waterford,  in 
1211,  he  obtained,  amongst  other  things, 
a  grant  of  the  lands  of  Carrigogunnell, 
with  the  Lordship,  for  himself  and  his 
heirs  for  ever,  at  a  yearly  rent  of  sixty 
marks. 

From  him  descended  Connor  O'Brien, 
who  was  Prince  of  Thomond  in  1399, 
and  before  that,  occupied  the  position  of 
tanist,  or  named  successor;  while  such, 


a  license  was  granted  by  King  Richard 
II.,  8  December,  1388,  to  the  Earl  of 
Desmond  to  send  his  son  to  him  to  be 
brought  up  or  fostered,  and  thus  an  al- 
liance was  formed  between  the  O'Briens 
and  the  Fitz  Geralds,  which  was  ce- 
mented by  several  intermarriages. 

His  third  son,  Brien  Duff  O'Brien, 
settled  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  and 
from  him  sprung  the  Lords  of  Agherloe 
and  Carrigogunnell. 

In  the  State  Papers  of  Henry  VIII., 
it  is  stated  in  1536,  that  Donough 
O'Brien,  afterwards  created  Baron 
Ibrackan,who  had  married  the  daughter 
of  the  Earl  of  Ossory  in  opposition  to 
his  own  father,  who  was  Prince  of  Tho- 
mond, and  allied  by  marriage  with  the 
Earl  of  Desmond,  whose  contests  with 
the  Earl  of  Ossory  caused  so  much  evil 
to  the  country,  had  offered  to  take  Car- 
rigogunnell, which,  it  is  added,  "never 
belonged  to  an  Englishman  for  'two 
hundred  years,"  if  he  had  an  English 
captain  and  soldiers,  and  a  piece  of 
ordnance. 

Sir  Leonard  Gray  succeeded  in  put- 
ting a  ward  of  soldiers  into  the  castle, 
and  gave  it  by  indenture  to  the  man 
who  had  suggested  the  capture,  but  he 
did  not  long  enjoy  it,  "  for  the  said 
castell  by  tradyment  was  taken  again  by 
the  persons  who  had  possessed  it  be- 
fore." 

It  descended  by  inheritance  to  Sir 
Brien  Duff  O'Brien,  Knt.,  who  married 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Hon.  Donough 
O'Brien  of  Dromoland,  and  Lemeneagh, 
1585,  July.  Brien  Duff  O'Brien  of  Car- 
rigogunnell, chief  of  his  name  in  Pobel- 
brien,  and  Lord  of  Pobel-brien,  surren- 
dered to  the  Queen  his  possessions  of 
Carrigogunnell,  and  other  lands  in  the 
county  of  Limerick,  and  took  out  a 
patent  for  same,  and  was  made  a  knight. 
He  died  11  July,  1615,  and  was  suc- 
ceeded by  his  son  Donough,  who  died 
without  issue  20  June,  1632.  Sir  Brien 
had  a  daughter,  named  Margaret,  mar- 
ried to  Richard  Stephenson,  of  Dunmoy- 
lan,  county  of  Limerick,  who  obtained 
large  grants  of  land  in  Connelloe. 

Carrigogunnell,  at  Donough's  death, 
passed  to  a  third  cousin,  Daniel  O'Brien 
of  Doweyne,  who  married  a  daughter  of 
Richard  Stephenson,  but  having  taken 


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taken  up  the  skeleton  of  a  monstrous  man,  whose  thigh  bone  was 
seven  foot  long,  and  all  other  part  proporconable,  whose  skull  could 
conteine  two  Bushells,  which  is  half  a  Bristoll  Barrell  of  Grayne. 

[The  well  known  Rhyming  Pedigree  of  the  Lords  of  Clare  is 
here  omitted] . 

The  BLAZING  STARR29  (as  it  appeared  to  me  &  others  in  the 
County  of  Thomond  or  Clare),  taken  at  ye  Castle  of  Rallahine, 
belonging  to  Giles  Vanderlure,  Esqr.,  one  of  his  Maties  Justices  of 
ye  peace  for  y'  county  in  Ireland. 

[See  p.  82,  supra.  The  MS.  has  here  also  a  drawing  of  the 
comet,  but  as  it  is  merely  an  enlarged  diagram  of  that  given  in  the 
view  of  Rathlahine  Castle,  it  has  not  been  engraved]. 

Decemb'.  10,  1680.     "  Nullus  Cometes  qui  malum  nullum  ferat." 

At  its  first  appearance  here  at  Rallahine  Castle,  being  on  Fri- 
day night,  Decembr  10th,  80,  it  shewed  itself  with  a  prodigious 
long,  pale,  taper  ray  of  a  leaden  Saturnine  colour,  without  any  signe 
of  a  starr  to  be  discern'd  at  its  poynt.  And  that  it  continued  to 
January  the  13nth  following,  is  all  the  Observation  I  could  make, 
and  comunicate  to  my  friends  in  England,  as  being  unacquainted 
with  Astrology. 

But  my  acquaintance,  Mr.  Francis  Herne,  belonging  to  Mr. 
Kerney,  serjeant  at  armes  &  a  learned  Mathematician,  from  his  house 
in  Castle-street,  Dublin,  sent  down  this  account  into  Munster, 
where  it  came  to  my  hands. 


part  in  the  rising  in  1641,  the  estate  ries,"  second  series,  vol.  ii.,  p.  316, 

was  forfeited.  says :  "  This  comet  appeared  first,  of 

After  the  restoration,  Carrigogunnell,  all  observers  of  modern  times,  to  God- 

with  four  plowlands,  was  granted  1  frey  Kirch,  at  Coburg,  in  Saxony,  on 

May,  13°  Chas.  II.,  to  Michael  Boyle,  November  14,  1680,  in  the  constellation 

Lord  Archbishop  of  Dublin.  Leo.  It  was  also  observed  in  different 

During  the  second  siege  of  Limerick  parts  of  Europe  and  America  in  the 

in  1691,  the  castle  was  occupied  by  a  same  month.  The  perihelion  passage  oc- 

force  of  150  men  for  King  James,  but  curredonDec.  18.  After  being  obscured 

General  Scravemore  having  been  sent  by  the  sun's  rays,  it  re-appeared,  and 

by  Baron  Ginkle  with  a  strong  party,  was  visible  for  months  after  Newton 

and  tour  guns,  the  150  soldiers  were  saw  it  on  March  19,  1681.  The  time  of 

marched  to  Clonmell  prisoners  of  war,  reappearance  is  uncertain  in  the  ex- 

and  Carrigogunnell  converted,  by  the  treme;  Encke  gives  a  period  of  8800 

use  of  gunpowder,  into  a  ruin,  still  pic-  years,  Newton's  and  Plomsteed's  ob- 

turesque,  and  showing  remains  of  its  servations  give  3164  years.  Mr.  Hind, 

former  strength  however  (»  The  Comets,"  by  J.  Russell 

Larngogunnell  is  generally  trans-  Hind,  1842),  remarks  that  the  obser- 

Rock  of  the  Candle,  but  Mr.  vations  collected  by  Encke  are  recon- 

>  Donovan  states  the  proper  name  cileable  with  an  elliptical  orbit  of  805 

Svn  MIg~S  gloinnea1'  Rock  of  the  years,  or  with  a  hyperbolic  one.  It  has 

been  proved  that  this  comet  is  not  iden- 

blazing  starry-Mr.  C.  Mans-  tical  with  those  of  1 106,  531,  and  before 

field  Ingoldsby,  in  •'  Notes  and  Que-  Christ  43  "— J  G 


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At  the  City  and  Archbishoprick  of  Dublin,  a  Blazing  Comet 
appear'd  Wednesday  ye  15  Decembr.  1680.  It  had  a  very  long 
Bushy  Tayle  or  Trayne,  pale,  whiteish,  glairing,  not  unlike  the 
shew  of  candle  light  through  white  paper.  The  starr  itself  was 
not  then  very  conspicuous,  though  its  Raye  or  Beame  shott  itself 
forth,  so  that  ye  starr  of  the  3  starrs  called  the  Eagles  Heart  was 
exactly  in  the  middle  of  its  blaze. 

On  Thursday  the  16,  its  gastly  brush  tayle  was  seen  on  the 
south  of  the  Heart  of  the  Eagle  within  half  the  breadth  of  the 
Raye,  &c. ;  this  is  also  sayd  to  have  been  seen  in  England  much 
about  the  same  time.  At  Erford,  in  Germany  Thuring.  on  ye 
18  Novembr.  80.  In  France,  24  Novr.  at  Bourdeaux.  Att  Ham- 
borough,  27  Decr.  1680,  &  at  Mentz,  Novemb.  80. 

Wth  these  things  the  Irish  were  ready  to  furnish  an  inquisitive 
stranger,  which  were  not  a  little  gratefull  to  my  curiosity. 

(To  be  continued.} 


THE  LAST  OF  THE  O'NEILLS,  EARLS  OF  TYRONE. 

BY    WILLIAM    PINKERTON,    F.  S.  A.,  F.  A.  S.  L. 

M.  DE  LA  PONCE,  of  Tours,  having  communicated  to  this  "Jour- 
nal" some  genealogical  and  biographical  notices  of  Hugh  O'Neill, 
Earl  of  Tyrone — whom  he  also,  ludicrously  enough,  terms  Prince 
of  Ulster — and  his  descendants,  I  must  here  claim  a  few  words  to 
expose  our  French  genealogist's  most  obvious  errors ;  and  I  feel 
bound  to  observe,  that  I  do  so  with  every  possible  respect  and  con- 
sideration for  M.  de  la  Ponce. 

Hugh  O'Neill,  the  last  Earl  of  Tyrone,  having  been  educated 
in  England,  and  brought  up  in  the  house  of  Sir  Henry  Sidney, 
knew  the  value  of  his  pedigree,  and  took  care  of  it.  His  flight  from 
Ireland  is  thus  described  in  the  "  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters," 
our  best  possible  authority  : — 

"  Maguire  (Cuconnaught)  and  Donough,  the  son  of  Mahon,  son  of  the 
Bishop  O'Brien,  brought  a  ship  with  them  to  Ireland,  and  put  in  at  the 
harbour  of  Swilly.  They  took  with  them  from  Ireland  the  Earl  O'Neill 
(Hugh,  the  son  of  Ferdorcha),  and  the  Earl  O'Donnell  (Rury,  the  son  of 
Hugh,  son  of  Manus),  with  a  great  number  of  the  chieftains  of  the  pro- 
vince of  Ulster.  These  were  they  who  went  with  O'Neill,  namely,  the 
Countess  Catherina,  the  daughter  of  Magennis,  and  her  three  sons,  Hugh, 


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the  baron,  John,  and  Brien;  Art  Oge,' the  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  the 
baron;  Ferdorcha,  son  of  Con,  son  of  O'Neill;  Hugh  Oge,  the  son  of 
Brian,  son  of  Art  O'Neill;  and  many  others  of  his  faithful  fremds. 

The  O'Neills  proceeded  to  Rome,  and  there  seem  to  have  sank 
into  utter  oblivion.  Scarcely  any  traces  of  them  exist  in  history ;  but 
we  know  that  Hugh,  the  Earl,  received  two  pensions— one  from  the 
kin"  of  Spain,  of  600  crowns,  and  another  from  the  Pope,  of  100 
crowns  per  annum.  And  we  have  a  slight  glance  of  the  Earl,  that 
I  do  not  think  has  ever  been  noticed  in  print  before,  in  the  "Tra- 
vels"2 of  the  old  Scotchman,  Lithgow,  who  was  in  Rome  in  1609, 
and  fell  under  suspicion  of  the  Inquisition  there ;  and  as  it  is  to  be 
hoped  that  O'Neill  knew  of  the  Scotch  Protestant's  concealment 
in  his  palace,  it  is  a  pleasing  reminiscence  of  the  old  Irish  warrior 
deserving  to  be  quoted  here.  Lithgow  says : — 

"  And  to  speake  truth,  if  it  had  not  beene  for  Robert  Meggat,  born 
near  to  Newbottle,  then  resident  in  Burgo  di  Roma,  with  the  old  Earl  of 
Tyrone,  who  had  me  secretly  for  three  dayes  in  the  top  of  his  Lord's  Pal- 
lace,  when  all  the  streetes  and  ports  of  Rome  were  laid  for  me,  who  con- 
veighing  me  away  at  the  fourth  midnight,  and  leapt  the  walles  of  Rome 
with  mee,  I  had  doubtlesse  dyed  as  hot  a  death  as  a  Lady  Prioresse  of 
Naples  did  afterward.  And  for  better  record  Patricke  Baxter,  now  dwell- 
ing in  Dundy,  and  then  followed  the  Earle  of  Tyrone,  can  justify  the 
same,  my  custody  and  my  escape  being  both  within  his  knowledge." 

In  the  record  of  the  "  Four  Masters,"  we  have  Hugh,  the 
Earl,  and  his  three  sons,  placed  according  to  their  birth  and  age, 
namely  Hugh,  the  Baron,  John,  and  Brian;  Henry,  an  elder  son, 
who  had  been  a  hostage  to  the  King  of  Spain,  having  previously 
died  at  Brussels,  as  is  clear  from  Hugh  being  styled  the  Baron  ; 
and  in  the  "  Four  Masters"  we  have  the  death  of  Hugh,  in  1609, 
described  in  these  words: — 

4<  Hugh  O'Neill,  the  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Ferdorcha,  and  the  heir 
of  the  Earl  O'Neill  (Tyrone),  the  only  expectation  of  the  Kinel-Owen3 
to  succeed  his  father,  if  he  had  survived  him,  died,  and  was  buried  in  the 
same  place  with  his  mother's  brothers,  the  Earl  of  O'Donnell  and  Caffar." 

Hugh,  the  Earl,  the  father  of  Hugh,  the  Baron,  died  in  the 
age  of  Christ  1616,  as  is  thus  told  in  the  "Annals  of  the  Four 
Masters" : — 

"  O'Neill  (Hugh,  the  son  of  Ferdorcha,   son  of  Con  Baccagh,  son  of 

i  Art  Oge  was  the  illegitimate  son  of  Adventures  and  painefull  Peregrinations 

Cormac  Mac  Baron,  who  died  a  prisoner  of  lone  nineteen  years  Travailes  from 

in  the  Tower  of  London ;  he  was  also  Scotland  to  the  most  famous  Kingdoms 

the  brother  of  the  Earl,  and  father  of  in  Europe,  Asia,  and  Affrica."    By  Wil- 

the  afterwards  celebrated   Owen  Roe  Ham  Lithgow.     Sm.  4to.     1640. 
°'Neill.  3  That  is   "the  tribe  of  Owen"— the 

»  "The  total  Discourse  of  the  rare  O'Neills. 


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Con,  son  of  Henry,  son  of  Owen),  who  had  been  Baron  from  the  death  of 
his  father  to  the  year  when  the  celebrated  Parliament  was  held  in  Dub- 
lin, 1585,  and  who  was  styled  Earl  of  Tyrone  at  that  Parliament,  and 
was  afterwards  styled  O'Neill,  died  at  an  advanced  age." 

There  is  then  only  John  and  Brian  left  of  the  legitimate  sons  of 
the  Earl,  and  John  succeeded  to  the  titular  Earldom.  For  I  am 
ashamed  to  say,  that  a  vindictive  and  unjust  bill  was  introduced  to 
the  Irish  Parliament,  for  the  attainder  of  Tyrone  and  his  fellow- 
exiles,  by  the  Roman  Catholic  Knight,  Sir  John  Everard,  and  it 
passed  unanimously. 

To  prove  that  this  John  succeeded  to  the  Earldom,  I  will  cite 
a  manuscript  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  in  the  handwriting,  as 
Primate  Usher  has  recorded,  of  the  historian,  O'Sullivan  Beare. 
Its  date  is  about  1618,  and  it  recites  that  Don  John  O'Neill, 
Earl  of  Tyrone,  Colonel  of  the  Irish  in  Flanders  ;  Don  Hugh 
O'Donnell,  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  page  to  the  Infanta1  in  Flanders, 
were  presented  to  the  King  of  Spain  by  Florentius,  Archbishop  of 
Tuam. 

And  in  another  document  in  the  same  collection  (MSS.,  T.  C. 
D.,  E.  3.  8),  but  dated  1625,  purporting  to  be  presented  to  the 
Lords  of  the  Council  in  Spain,  "  to  the  end  that  they  may  know 
what  Irish  they  make  use  of  on  the  King's  occasions."  It  includes 
among  the  "  ancient  Irish  seculars  in  his  Majesty's  dominions,'* 
the  names  of"Dom.  John  O'Neill,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  Corronell  of 
the  Irish  in  Flanders;  Dom.  Hugh  O'Donnell,  Earl  of  Tyr- 
connell, page  to  the  Infanta  in  Flanders  ;  "  and  "  Dom.  Eugenius 
O'Neill,  Sergeant- Major."  This  last  was  the  celebrated  Owen 
Roe  O'Neill.  The  rank  of  serjeant-major  in  a  regiment  was  then 
equal  to  that  of  a  major  now,  while  a  serjeant-major  of  an  army 
then  performed  the  same  duties,  and  had  the  same  rank,  as  a 
quartermaster-general  at  the  present  day. 

Again,  Hugh  Mac  Caughwell,  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  died  at 
Rome  in  1626,  and  John  O'Neill,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  erected  a  monu- 
ment to  his  memory  in  the  Church  of  St.  Isidore,  on  which  there 
were  the  following  words  : — 

"  EXCELLENTISSIMUS    DOMINUS 

JOHANNES  O'NEALE  TIRONI^;  COMES 
HUNC  LAPIDEM  PONI  FECIT." 

These  words  will  be  found  in  the  "  Supplementum"  to  De 
Burgo's  "  Hibernia?  Dominicans,"  p.  784 ;  and  also  in  Ware's 
u  Writers,"  p.  104.  But  why  need  I  refer  to  books ;  I  quote  them 
from  my  own  memorandum  book,  for  I  read  them  myself  on  the 
monument  some  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  and  from  the  state  the 

1  Isabella  Clara  Eugenia,  Infanta  of  Spain. 
O 


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inscription  was  in  then,  it  promised  to  be.  equally  as  legible  for  a 

century  to  come. 

Of"  the  end  of  the  reign  of  Charles  I.  there  is  m  the  State 
Paper  Office  a  great  number  of  documents  connected  herewith, 
but  unfortunately  undated.  One  of  them  is  exceedingly  interest- 
ing, and  well  worthy  of  a  place  here.  It  is  a  list  of  the  Irishmen 
abroad,  who  might  be  dangerous  to  the  peace  of  Ireland  in  the 
event  of  a  war  with  Spain;  and  as  peace  was  declared  with  that 
nation  in  1630,  we  may  conclude  it  was  written  in  that  year.  The 
notes  in  the  margin,  and  words  underlined,  have  no  doubt  been 
made  as  marks  of  importance  by  the  officer  who  had  received  the 
paper.  It  is  as  follows  :— 

"The  dangers  of  Ireland  not  yet  doubted,  because  that  kingdome 
seemeth  quiet,  doe  depend  most  on the  plottes  and  pur- 
poses of  Irish  commanders  serving  forraigne  Princes.  .  ^.  .  .  . 

"  The  Irish  servinge  forraigne  Princes  are  either  soldiers  or  pensioners 
in  Spain,  Italy,  France,  Germany,  Poland,  and  under  the  Archduchess ; 
wherof  many  are  growne  expert  soldiers  by  sea  and  land.  A  list  of  many 
of  the  chiefest  of  them,  as  far  as  I  can  learne,  I  have  here  inserted : — 

**  Don  Ricardo  Buck  (for  so  he  Burke  is  called),  being  of  the  Earle  of 
Clanricard's  kindred,  is  a  man  much  experienced  in  martiall  affaires,  and 
much  estemed  for  his  judgment  in  the  mathematickes,  and  a  good  ingi- 
niere.  He  served  many  yeares  under  the  Spanish  in  Naples,  from  thence 
he  was  employed  to  the  West  Indies,  and  returned  to  Spaine.  After- 
wards, with  supply  of  new  authority,  he  was  sent  to  the  Low  Countreys, 
and  was  highly  respected  by  the  Archdutchess.  He  was  called  to  the 
Emperor,  and  was  appointed  Leiutenant-Generall  ;  but  the  Emperor 
refrayned  that  intended  expedition.  The  Duke  of  Florence  hearing  of 
N  B  his  sufficiency  sent  for  him,  and  made  him  Governor  of  Lygorne* , 
where  he  hath  lived  in  great  esteeme. 

"In  Milaine  Phellemy  O'Neile,   nephew  unto  old  Tyrone, 
liveth  in  greate  Request,  and  is  a  Captaine  to  a  troop  of  Horse. 
u  There  is  also  one  James  Routh,  an  Alpheres  of  a  Company  amongst 
the  Spanish  Infantrie,  he  is  a  brother  to  Captaine  John  Routh,  a  pensioner 
in  Naples,  whoe  carried  Tyrone  out  of  Ireland. 

"  In  the  Citty  of  Florence,  there  is  one  Captaine  Salamon  McDa,  of  the 
house  of  the  Geraldines,  whoe  claimeth  as  a  Geraldine  to  be  descended 
from  out  of  Florence,  by  the  Duke  he  is  enterteyned.  He  fled  out  of 
Spaine  for  Killing  an  English  gentleman,  whoe  was  one  of  the  English 
Ambassador's  gentlemen,  and  is  a  pensioner  to  the  Duke  of  Florence, 
having  byn  a  soldier. 

"  In  Naples,  Sir  Thomas  Talbot,  Knight  of  the  Order  of  Malta,  a  re- 
solute and  welbeloved  man.  He  attained  to  that  order,  partly  by  his  Ser- 
vice, and  by  Tyrone's  endevours. 

"  In  Naples  alsoe  lived  a  long  while  the  Lord  Wise,  the  titulary  Prior 
of  England,  but  of  later  times  he  removed  into  Spayne,  and  liveth  at 
Court  there.  Soe  there  other  Irish  Captaynes  and  officers  in  Naples. 

1  Leghorn. 


95 

"  In  Spayne,  Captaine  Phelemy  Kavanagh,  sonne  in  law  to  Donnel 
Spaniough,  serveth  under  the  King  by  sea.  Captayne  Art  O  Morcho,  a 
valiant  man  and  well  accounted.  Captayne  Soulevayne,  a  man  of  noted 
courage.  Theis  live  commonly  at  Lisbone,  and  are  sea  captaines,  besides 
others  of  the  Irish.  Captaine  Driscoll,  the  younger,  son  to  old  Captayne 
Driscoll,  both  men  reckoned  valorous,  and  the  ffather  of  most  experience. 

"  In  the  Court  of  Spayne  liveth  the  son  of  Richard  BurJc,  which  was 

nephew  unto  Mc William,  whoe  dyed  at  Valladoltd,  the  young  man  was  page 

N  B     unto  the  last  Kinge  of  Spayne.     He  is  in  high  favour  with  the 

Kinge,  and,  as  it  is  reported,  is  to  be  made  a  Marques.     Captayne 

Toby  Burke,  a  pensioner  in  the  Court  of  Spayne,  another  nephew  to  the 

said  Mc William  deceased.     Captayne  John  Burke  M°Shane,  whoe  served 

long  time  in  Flaunders,  and  now  liveth  on  his  pension  assigned  in  the 

Groyne.     Captayne  Daniell,  a  pensioner  at  Antwerpe. 

"  In  the  Low  Countryes  under  the  Archduchess. 

"  John  O'Neile,  son  to  the  Arch-Traitor,  Tyrone,  Colonell  of  the  Irish 
Regiment,  young  O'Donell,  son  to  the  late  Traiterous  Earle  of  Tircon- 
nell,  Owen  O'Neill,1  Sergeant-Major  of  the  Irish  Regiment,  Captaine  Art 
O'Neile,  Captaine  Cormock  O'Neile,  Captayne  Donell  O'Donnell,  Cap- 
taine Thady  O'Sulevan,  Captayne  Preston,  Captaine  Fitz  Gerrott,  old 
Captaine  Fitz  Gerrott,  sometimes  Sergeant-Major,  now  a  Pensioner,  Capt. 
Edmond  O'Mo[  ],  Capt.  Brian  O'Rely,  Captaine  Stanihurst,  Captaine 
Garlon,  Capt.  Daniel,  Captaine  Walshe. 

"  There  are  divers  other  Captaines  and  officers  of  the  Irish  under  the 
Archduchess,  some  of  whose  companies  are  cast,  and  they  are  made  Pen- 
sioners. Of  theis  serving  under  the  Archduchesse,  there  are  about  100, 
able  to  command  companyes,  and  twenty  fitt  to  be  Colonells.  Many  of 
them  are  descended  of  gentlemens  families  and  some  of  noblemens. 

"  Theis  Irish  Soldiers  and  Pensioners  doe  stay  their  resolutions  untill 
they  see  whether  England  makes  peace  or  warr  with  Spayne.  If  peace, 
they  have  practised  already  with  other  forraigne  Princes,  from  whom 
they  have  received  hopes  of  assistance.  If  warre  insue,  they  are  confident 
of  greater  ayde. 

'*  They  have  byn  longe  providinge  of  armes  for  any  attempt  against 
Ireland,  and  had  in  rediness  five  or  six  thousand  Arms  laid  up  in  Ant- 
werpe for  that  purpose,  bought  out  of  the  deduction  of  their  monthly  pay, 
as  will  be  proved.  And  it  is  thought,  they  have  nowe  doubled  that  pro- 
portion by  this  meanes. 

N  B  "If  his  Majesty  shall  think  fitt  whilst  the  peace  is  nowe  treated  of 

(as  the  fittest  time  to  prevent  future  perills,  it  being  neglected  at 
the  making  of  the  last  peace  with  Spayne)  to  imploy  some  trusty  and  suffi- 
cient man  unto  the  Archduchesse.  to  procure  the  restraint  of  dangerous 
designes  by  the  Irish  serving  under  her,  and  some  other  to  the  King  of 
Spayne  for  that  purpose,  I  doe  conceive  much  insuinge  danger  may  be 
avoyded;  or,  if  that  shold  not  take  effect,  yet  meanes  may  be  made,  under 
cullor  of  that  message,  to  deale  with  some  imployed  there,  whoe  shall 
discover  unto  the  State  here  any  evill  intentions  the  Irish  there  shall  goe 
about  to  trouble  Ireland.  And  I  think  I  knowe  whoe  are  fittest  to  be 
ingaged  in  that  service. 

i  Owen  Roe  O'Neill. 


96 

"  Besides,  under  correction,  I  conceive  that  some  provision  for 
strength  ofarmesand  soldiers  for  resistance  of  rebellion  or  invasion  of 
Ireland  is  most  needfull,  wherein  I  believe  I  can  show  and  sett  downe  a 
course  'howe  seaven  thousand  foote,  and  three  hundred  horse  maybe 
ahvaies  in  a  rediness  well  armed  in  that  Kealme,  for  the  safety  thereof, 
without  any  charge  to  his  Malie,  or  greate  burthen  to  the  country,  which 
I  shall  be  redy  to  propound,  when  I  shall  be  thereto  commanded  by  his 
Mau',  soe  that  it  be  kept  secret  unto  his  royall  self,  otherwise  the  dis- 
covery of  theis  things,  will  disappoint  and  defeate  his  service  for  the  safety 
of  that  kingdome." 

It  is  clear,  then,  that  John  O'Neill  was  the  titular  Earl 
of  Tyrone,  and  that  he  commanded  the  Irish  regiment  in  Flanders. 
He  died  also  early  in  1641;  for,  in  the  confession  of  Lord  Ma- 
guire,1  written  with  his  own  hand,  when  under  sentence  of  death, 
and  delivered  by  him  to  Sir  John  Conyers,  the  Lieutenant  of  the 
Tower,  to  be  presented  to  the  Lords  in  Parliament,  he  says  that 
one  Neale  O'Neill  was  sent  by  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  to  seek  out  the 
gentry  of  his  name  and  kindred  in  Ireland  ;  but  a  report  even  then 
was  spread  that  the  Earl  was  dead,  which  was  not  believed ; 
"  but  presently  after  his  departure  the  Earl's  death  was  known  ;" 
and  he  continues,  "  the  Pope  had  given  several  promises  formerly 
to  my  Lord  of  Tyrone  to  maintaim  6000  men  yearly  at  his  own 
charge,  and  that,  notwithstanding  that  my  Lord  of  Tyrone  was 
dead,  yet  that  he  would  continue  the  same  forwardness  now." 

The  greatest  error  of  M.  de  la  Ponce  appears  to  be  in  con- 
founding John  with  Brian  O'Neill.  It  is  John  who  is  alluded  to 
in  Moore's  "History  of  Ireland,"  where  it  says  that,  "in  1640, 
although  Tyrone  has  been  many  years  dead,  a  son  worthy  of  his 
name  and  fame  was  still  alive,  who  commanded  a  regiment  in  the 
Spanish  service."  It  is  the  same  John  who  is  alluded  to  by  both 
Wills  and  Keating,  whom  M.  de  la  Ponce  quotes.  I  am  really 
surprised  at  the  assumptions  of  a  genealogist,  who  tells  us  that  he 
has  "proved  that  Shane  O'Neill,  another  legitimate  son  of  Hugh, 
Karl  of  Tyrone,  was  in  Ireland  about  the  year  1646,  with  his 
relative,  Owen  Roe  O'Neill."  Now,  the  proof  of  this  is  merely  the 
words  from  Wills'  "Lives  of  Illustrious  Irishmen,"  as  follows : — 
44  In  the  meantime,  Shane  O'Neill,  whom  his  commander  (Owen 
Uoe)  had  posted  in  the  rear  of  the  cavalry,  advanced  with  his 

twelve  companies" This  is  what  M.  de  la  Ponce  calls  the 

proof  that  this  Shane  was  the  legitimate  son  of  Hugh  O'Neill ! 
And  he^  further  asks,  "  If  Brian,  another  legitimate  son  of  this 
Count  (Tyrone)  is  ^not  the  Colonel,  who  died  in  the  Spanish  ser- 
vice in  1641,  what  is  the  name  of  this  Colonel,  who  was  legitimate 
Fon  of  the  Count  of  Tyrone?  We  should  be  happy  to  learn 
this  fact  from  the  anonymous  gentleman."  Well,  though  I  do  not 

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97 

know  the  anonymous  gentleman,  nor  have  I  seen  any  of  his 
writings,  I  shall  take  upon  me  to  answer  the  question .  His  name 
was  Shane  or  John,  and  he  died  at  St.  Fleu,  in  Catalonia,  January 
22nd,  1641.1 

To  resume  for  one  moment,  we  find,  according  to  the  '*  Four 
Masters,"  the  very  best  authority  in  a  case  of  this  kind,  that  Hugh 
O'Neill,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  died  in  1616,  at  Rome;  his  then  eldest 
son  and  heir  pre-deceased  his  father,  dying  at  Rome  in  1609.  At 
the  death  of  the  Earl,  or  immediately  after,  John  assumed  the  title, 
became  Colonel  of  the  Irish  regiment  at  Brussels,  and  finally  died  at 
St.  Fleu  in  1641  ;  for  this  I  give  sufficient  documentary  evidence. 
Brian,  the  youngest  son  of  Hugh,  the  Earl,  died  at  Brussels  about 
1619.  I  may  add  here,  that  John  O'Neill  left  an  illegitimate  son 
named  Hugh,  to  whom  Philip  IV.  of  Spain  gave  his  father's  regi- 
ment, and  also  granted  him  letters  of  legitimization  ;  but,  in  1 642, 
the  Pope  refused  to  give  confirmation  to  those  letters.  Hugh, 
too,  was  inactive  in  his  nature,  thought  nothing  of  his  Irish 
descent,  and  never  went  at  any  time  to  that  country. 

Though  Sir  Phelim  O'Neill  was  bred  up  a  Protestant  in  Eng- 
land, when  he  heard  of  the  death  of  John  O'Neill,  in  1641,  his 
ambition  became  excited,  and  he  at  once  rushed  into  the  con- 
spiracy, urging  Roger  O'More  to  commence  the  insurrection.  And 
as  the  most  considerable  of  his  name  [he  was  legitimately  descended 
from  an  Owen  O'Neill,  grandfather  by  the  father's  side  to  Con 
Baccagh]  in  Ireland,  he  prematurely  set  fire  to  the  train  of  rebel- 
lion, and  speedily  found  himself  the  leader  of  several  thousand 
men.  His  success  turned  his  weak  brain,  accounting  himself  King 
of  Ulster,  and  assuming  the  title  of"  the  O'Neill;"  he  even  took 
greater  authority  than  had  ever  been  given  of  old  to  the  dignity, 
and  engrafting  upon  his  learning,  gained  at  Lincoln's  Inn,  made 
various  feudal  grants — "  according  to  our  regal  intention."  But 
when  Owen  Roe  O'Neill  arrived  in  Ireland,  the  gentlemen  of 
Ulster  unanimously  chose  him  as  their  commander-in-chief,  but 
declared  neither  of  them  to  be  "  the  O'Neill,"  though  Owen 
was  troubled  all  his  life  by  the  emulation  of  Sir  Phelim  O'Neill, 
and  his  relations.  So  we  are  told  by  Carte,  though  Moore  as 
distinctly  says,  that  Owen  was  elected  "the  O'Neill,"  though 
he  really  was  the  illegitimate  son  of  an  illegitimate  father.  Either 
story,  however,  is  utterly  condemnatory  of  the  idea,  that  a  legiti- 
mate son  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  commanded  the 
cavalry  in  the  army  of  Owen  Roe  O'Neill,  as  we  are  most  as- 
suredly told  by  M.  de  la  Ponce. 

That  a  legitimate  son  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  was  an 
officer  in  Owen  Roe's  army  in  Ireland,  without  the  fact  being 

i  Carte. 


known  to  the  Irish  people  at  the  time,  or  to  Irish  antiquaries 
now,  is  simply  an  absurd  impossibility.  An  "O'Neill"  would 
have  been  hailed  by  ten  thousand  Irish  voices,  and  not  concealed 
under  a  bushel,  to  be  discovered  now  by  a  French  genealogist. 
What  does  M.  de  la  Ponce  offer  us  as  a  proof  of  his  bare  assertion  ? 
Not  one  word.  The  pedigree  of  M'Curtin  is  simply  erroneous. 
The  certificate  by  the  officers  of  the  Brigade  of  Walsh  only  states 
that  James  Henry  O'Neill  is  born  "  of  the  ancient  and  illustrious 
family  of  the  O'Neills;"  and  I  will  get  one  hundred  different 
families  of  O'Neill  in  the  North  of  Ireland  to  state  the  same  thing 
at  the  present  day. 

In  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  one  Gordon  O'Neill,  said  to  be 
the  son  of  Sir  Phelim,  was  raised  to  be  a  Brigadier-General,  and 
claimed  to  be  of  the  family  of  "  the  O'Neill."  At  this  time 
one  Balldearg  O'Donnell,  the  next  of  kin  to  the  last  O'Donnell, 
Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  came  to  Ireland.  He  was  also  a  brigadier;  and 
Storey,  speaking  of  him,  says — "  It  is  incredible  how  fast  the 
vulgar  Irish  flocked  to  him  at  his  first  coming ;  so  that  he  got  in  a 
small  time  8000  rapparees,  and  such  like  people,  together."  King 
James  himself  says,  that  "  Ballderrick  O'Donnell  had  set  up  for 
an  independent  commander,  and  having  got  together  no  less  than 
eight  regiments  newly  raised,  with  a  crowd  of  loose  men  over  and 
above,  lived  in  a  manner  at  discretion."  Now  Talbot,  who  was 
then  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  opposed  the  services  of  Balldearg  as  much 
as  he  possibly  could.  Colonel  O'Kelly,  in  the  "  Excidium  Ma- 
caria?,"  says,  that — 

"  The  King  recommending  him  to  Talbot,  he  gave  him  the  command 
of  the  new  levies,  raised  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  province  of  Ulster,  who 
were  then  retired  into  Connaught,  but  afforded  him  neither  arms  or 
maintenance;  and  observing  soon  after  that  O'Donnell  grew  popular 
among  the  old  Irish,  he  took  from  him  some  of  the  new  legions,  whom  he 
incorporated  in  the  standing  army,  leaving  him  and  the  rest  without  any 
manner  of  subsistence.  He  also  encouraged  the  nobles  of  Ulster,  and 
even  the  Tribunes  of  his  own  Brigade,  to  oppose  him,  in  order  to  suppress 
his  aspiring  mind;  but  his  chiefest  aim  was  to  breed  jealousies  between 
him  and  Gordon  O'Neill,  descended  from  the  first  Prince  of  Ulster;  for 
he  apprehended  (and  perhaps  he  had  reason)  that  if  the  forces  of  Ulster, 
all  composed  of  old  Irish,  were  united  together,  they  might  easily  obstruct 
his  design  to  reduce  Ireland  under  the  jurisdiction  of  William,  in  order 
to  preserve  there  the  English  interest,  which  is  held  so  sacred  by  those 
of  England,  and  even  by  some  natives  of  Ireland  deriving  their  extraction 
from  thence,  wherof  Talbot  was  one,  that  they  prefer  it  before  the  true 
worship  of  the  immortal  Gods." 

m  Balldearg  O'Donnell,  however,  little  recked  of  Talbot's  oppo- 
sition, he  was  readily  bought  over  to  the  other  side,  and  ended  his 
days  comfortably,  with  a  pension  of  £500  per  annum,  granted  by 
William  III. 


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The  simple  fact  of  such  intrigues  clearly  shows  that  there  was 
no  knowledge  then  in  Ireland  of  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  Earl  of 
Tyrone.  He  indeed  had  wisely  proceeded  to  the  island  of  Marti- 
nico,  when,  or  under  what  circumstances,  we  are  not  toloj.  Though, 
I  conceive,  it  would  be  almost  as  difficult  for  an  Irishman  in  the 
seventeenth  century  to  settle  in  a  French  West  India  island,  as  it 
was,  some  3000  years  earlier,  for  an  inhabitant  of  the  Grecian  Ar- 
chipelago to  settle  in  Ireland. 

Divide  et  impera  was  always  the  rule  of  English  government 
in  Ireland.  I  have  referred  above  to  an  undated  paper  in  the 
State  Paper  Office,  and  I  am  tempted  here  now  to  refer  to  another. 
It  is  written  by  Sir  Pierce  Crosbye,  and  addressed  "  to  the  right 
honble  the  Lo.  Conway,  principal  secretary  to  his  Majesty,"  so  it 
cannot  be  of  a  later  date  than  1625,  when  Conway  resigned  the 
secretaryship.  Its  principal  purport  is  "the  Irish  souldiers  in 
Flanders,"  whom  the  writer  considers  to  "  have  been  enterteyned 
and  kept  there  of  purpose  to  be  throwne  back  agayne  as  firebrands 
when  occasion  should  serve." 

"I  hould  Tirconnell's  sonne,"  Sir  Pierce  says,  "the  likeliest  to  be 
wonne,  and  that  for  these  reasons: — First,  his  mother,  being  of  English 
descent,  hath  often  advised  with  myself  and  other  of  her  allyes  how  to 
bring  home  her  sonne,  and  to  move  his  late  Majesty  to  be  gracious  unto 
him,  which,  it  is  to  be  presumed,  she  would  not  have  done,  if  she  had  not 
understood  his  own  inclination  and  propense  thereunto,  having  had,  as 
may  well  be  supposed,  frequent  correspondency  with  him,  by  letters  and 
messages. 

"  Secondly,  there  is  betweene  him  and  Tyrone's  sonne  an  implacable 
emulation,  O'Donnell  esteeming  himself  the  better  gent.,  and  disdayning 
to  be  inferior  to  the  other,  and  yet  well  knowing  that  the  name  of  O'Neill 
in  Ireland  will  carry  the  superioritie,  and  invassel  him  if  they  should 
atchieve  their  purpose. 

"Lastly,  the  foresayd  Capt.  Preston,  who  is  brother  to  the  Vicount 
Gormanstowne,  and  will  certainly  be  glad  to  quitt  that  partie  upon  any 
reasonable  tearmes,  hath  of  all  men  the  greatest  power  with  the  young 
gent.,  and  will,  I  am  confident,  persuade  him  effectually  to  accept  of  any 
good  conditions,  and  to  sue  for  grace. 

"  If  this  be  effected,  it  will  be  a  matter  of  very  great  consequence,  for 
against  this  man,  the  old  rule  of  state,  to  rayse  a  Kowland  for  an  Oliver 
will  little  avayle,  there  being  no  competitor  to  O'Donnell,  except  Sir 
Neill  O'Donnell,  now  in  the  Tower,  so  that  the  King  must  otherwise  be 
at  the  charge  of  an  army  to  suppress  him.  Besides  the  weakening  of  Ty- 
rone, who,  being  left  to  trust  to  his  owne  followers  in  the  North,  will  be 
greatly  subdued,  without  any  great  charge  to  his  Majesty,  in  regard  of 
divers  of  his  own  name  and  kindred,  who  may  be  mayntayned  and  coun- 
tenanced agaynst  him." 

The  Countess  of  Tyrconnell,  whom  Crosbie  speaks  of  in  this 
paper  as  being  of  English  descent,  was  a  daughter  of  Henry,  twelfth 


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Earl  of  Kildare,  and  Lady  Frances  Howard,  daughter  of  Charles, 
Earl  of  Nottingham.  When  her  husband  fled  from  Ireland,  she 
refused  to  go  with  him,  and  immediately  after  gave  birth  to  a 
daughter,  who  was  adopted  by  James  I.,  who  gave  her,  at  the 
fount,  the  name  of  Marie  Stuart.  The  Earl  died  at  Rome  in  1 608  ; 
and  when  his  daughter,  Marie,  came  to  marriageable  years,  she  was 
intended  to  have  been  married  to  a  Protestant,  but,  disdaining  such 
a  catastrophe,  she  fled,  in  men's  clothes,  to  the  Continent,  and 
claimed  the  protection  of  the  Infanta,  at  Brussells.  This  event 
created  a  sensation  throughout  all  Europe.  She  was  compared^to 
Euphrosyne  of  Alexandria,  to  Aldegonde,  and  other  sainted  virgins 
of  antiquity.  The  Pope  wrote  her  a  letter,  in  his  own  hand,  prais- 
in<r  and  blessing  her.  A  history  of  the  affair,  written  by  Albert 
Henriques,  was  published  at  Brussels,  in  1627,  under  the  title, 
"  Resolution  Varonil  o  Viage  que  heco  Donna  Maria  Estuarda 
Condesa  de  Tirconel  entrage  de  baron,  Historia  Entretenidp  y 
Verdadero."  And  in  the  following  year  it  was  translated  into 
French  by  Pierre  de  Cadenat,  and  published  at  Paris,  as  "  Reso- 
lution courageuse  et  lon'able,  de  la  Countesse  de  Tirconel,  Irlan- 
doise.  Ses  adventures,  et  ses  voyages  en  habit  de  cavalier,  estant 
persecutee  pour  la  religion  Catholique  en  Angleterre." 

The  late  Mr.  O'Donovan  tells  us  that  this  Marie  Stuart 
afterwards  married  the  Earl  of  Fingall.  But  it  was  an  elder 
daughter,  named  Elizabeth,  whom  Tyrconnell,  in  a  fit  of  loyalty, 
had  called  after  the  maiden  queen,  that  married  the  Earl  of  Fin- 
gall.  Marie  Stuart  died  a  virgin  nun,  in  a  foreign  convent. 

The  above  was  written,  and  in  the  hands  of  the  editor,  several 
months  before  the  publication  of  the  Rev.  C.  P.  Meehan's  "Fate  and  For- 
tunes of  Hugh  O'Neill,  Earl  of  Tyrone."  He  states  that  Henry  O'Neill, 
Tyrone's  second  son,  assumed  the  title  after  his  father's  death,  and  that 
he  was  Colonel  of  the  Irish  regiment  as  early  as  1605 ;  but  he  does  not 
give  us  any  documentary  evidence  for  these  assertions,  and  we  never 
hear  of  him  after  his  father's  death,  in  1616.  Mr.  Meehan  further  tells  us, 
in  allusion  to  an  undated  letter  of  William  Turnbull,  which  appears  to 
have  been  written  in  1615: — "  Of  Henry's  career  we  have  not  been  able 
to  get  further  data;  but  there  is  no  doubt  that  he  continued  Colonel  of 
the  Irish  regiment  till  his  death,  which  must  have  occurred  some  time 
before  1626,  when  the  Earldom  devolved  on  John  ;  the  latter  succeeded 
to  the  command  held  by  his  brother."  Now  I  have  clearly  shown, 
that  John  O'Neill  was  titular  Earl  of  Tyrone,  and  Colonel  of  the  Irish 
regiment  in  Flanders,  as  early  as  1618,  two  years  only  after  old  Tyrone's 
death.  Can  Mr.  Meehan  have  mistaken  Henry  for  John  ?  The  last 
authentic  account  I  have  of  Henry  is,  that  he  is  mentioned  in  the  bill  of 
attainder  passed  by  the  Irish  Parliament  in  1614.  lam,  therefore,  com- 
pelled to  conclude  that  Henry  O'Neill  died  before  his  father." 


PROCEEDINGS  AND  PAPERS, 


QUARTERLY  GENERAL  MEETING,  held  at  the  Society's  Apart- 
ments, William-street,  Kilkenny,  on  Wednesday,  July  10th, 
1867. 

THE  REV.  RICHARD  DEVERELL,  A.  M.,  in  the  Chair. 
The  following  new  Members  were  elected  : — 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Gargan,  Professor  of  Ecclesiastical  History,  St. 
Patrick's  College,  Maynooth :  proposed  by  the  Rev.  J.  Hughes. 

John  James  Perceval,  Esq.,  Barntown  House,  Wexford:  pro- 
posed by  Beauchamp  Colclough,  Esq. 

The  Rev.  George  T.  Parks,  M.  A.,  Wesleyan  Mission  House, 
Bishopsgate-street  Within :  proposed  by  the  Rev.  G.  Vance. 

William  Gray,  Esq.,  Mount  Charles,  Belfast :  proposed  by  Ro- 
bert Day,  jun.,  Esq. 

Mr.  Prim — having  been  commissioned  at  the  last  meeting  of 
the  Society,  to  ascertain  if  the  Commissioners  of  National  Educa- 
tion, in  recently  purchasing  some  premises  adjoining  the  Model 
School,  had  any  intention  of  removing  the  portion  of  the  old  city 
wall  which  divides  the  school  grounds  from  the  premises — now  re- 
ported the  result  of  his  inquiries.  He  had  been  informed  by  L. 
Harkin,  Esq.,  the  local  Inspector  of  National  Schools,  that  the  ob- 
ject in  purchasing  the  premises  in  question  was  not  to  increase  the 
area  of  the  school,  but  to  prevent  any  unsightly  building  being 
erected  there,  or  use  made  of  them  which  might  be  deemed  a  nui- 
sance to  the  institution  which  they  had  hitherto  adjoined  and  over- 
looked. There  was  no  intention  whatever  of  interfering  with  the 
existing  portion  of  the  town  wall,  or  the  old  bastion  attached  to  it — 
of  which,  indeed,  Mr.  Prim  observed,  every  possible  care  was  taken 
by  Mr.  Ryan,  the  Head  Master  (a  member  of  their  Society),  with 
the  full  approbation  of  Mr.  Harkin. 

The  report  was  considered  very  satisfactory  by  the  meeting. 


102 

The  following  presentations  were  received,  and  thanks  voted  to 
the  donors  :— 

By  Mr.  Bettesworth  Lawless :  an  Irish  shilling  of  James  I., 

with  the  legend  on  the  obverse,  HENRICUS  ROSAS  REGNA  JACOBUS. 

By  MrfX.  Lyster,  Rockvilla :  a  Japanese  letter,  with  its  en- 

By  the  Rev.  G.  H.  Reade,  Iniskeen  :  a  sketch  of  an  ancient 
Irish  hand-bell  in  his  own  possession,  which  resembled  the  bell  of 
St.  Fechin,  described  in  a  paper  on  ancient  Irish  bells,  printed  in 
the  second  volume  of  the  Society's  "Journal,"  first  series,  as  being 
composed  of  iron  with  a  coat  of  bronze  riveted  on  to  the  outside. 
It  was  8  inches  high,  2  inches  round  the  mouth,  and  its  greatest  dia- 
meter T^inches.  It  was  an  adjuration  bell — mostprobably  St.  Colum- 
kill's,  as  it  was  found  at  Gartan,  in  the  county  of  Donegal,  and  had 
been  preserved  in  a  family  there  from  time  immemorial.  It  was  also 
used  as  a  medicine  bell,  a  draught  of  water  out  of  it  being  the  pa- 
nacea. In  1847,  the  potato  failure  drove  the  family  of  the  "  keeper" 
to  America,  and  it  was  then  sold  to  the  person  from  whom  Mr.  Reade 
had  since  bought  it.  The  rivets  were  bronze,  the  handle  iron,  and 
the  outer  covering  was  nearly  perfect.  The  inside  lining  of  iron 
consisted  of  four  plates ;  and  he  fancied  that  it  was  put  there  to 
keep  the  venerated  bronze  together ;  but  the  usual  way  of  manufac- 
turing such  bells  was  to  form  them  of  iron,  which  was  then  dipped 
in  molten  bronze.  The  iron  in  this  instance  did  not  line  the  top, 
which  was  convex.  The  bronze  outside  was  one  casting. 

Mr.  Robertson  exhibited  a  leaf  of  an  old  MS.  memorandum 
book,  entrusted  to  him  by  the  Dean  of  Ossory  for  the  purpose  of 
placing  on  record  the  following  entry,  written  thereon  in  a  hand  of 
the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century  : — • 

"  In  Athey,  in  Ireland,  lived  at  the  time  of  ye  Revolution  Mrs.  Mun- 
ford  who  had  19  sons  riding  at  the  same  time  in  Captain  Wolseley's  troop 
not  Regimented.  She  lived  to  bury  them  all." 

Lord  Gort  communicated  to  the  Rev.  James  Graves,  in  the  hope 
that  some  of  the  members  of  the  Kilkenny  Archaeological  Society 
could  throw  light  on  the  matter,  the  existence  till  recently  of  a 
very  curious  commemorative  custom  at  Combmartin,  in  Devonshire, 
which  had  a  reference  to  Ireland,  being  known  as  "  Hunting  the 
Earl  of  Rone,"  or  «  Hunting  the  Hare  of  Rone,"  the  Earl  of  Tyrone 
being  said  to  be  the  fugitive  alluded  to.  The  Rev.  W.  S.  Hore, 
Rector  of  Shebbeare,  in  Devonshire,  had  sent  to  his  Lordship  an 
extract  from  the  North  Devon  Scenery  Book,  by  the  Rev.  George 
Engevell,  which  stated  that  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  or  a  political  re- 
fugee, supposed  in  Combmartin  to  be  such  a  personage,  was  cap- 
tured  by  a  detachment  of  soldiers  in  Lady's  Wood,  near  that  vil- 


103 

kge,  during  the  times  of 'the  Irish  Rebellion.  The  legend  goes 
that  he  had  been  wandering  in  the  neighbourhood  for  some  time 
before  his  capture,  and  had  lived  on  a  string  of  ship  biscuits  which 
he  had  hung  round  his  neck,  and  which  he  had  procured  from  the 
little  vessel  which  landed  him  on  the  North  Devon  coast. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Hore  added  :— 

"  Shortly  after  my  ordination,  I  was  appointed  in  August,  1842,  to 
the  curacy  of  Combmartin,  a  parish  on  the  coast  of  the  British  Channel, 
near  Ilfracombe.  In  this  year  there  was  a  suspension  of  the  custom,  but 
in  the  following  one,  1833, 1  was  applied  to,  in  order  to  ascertain  whether 
I  would  object  to  its  renewal.  Having  a  fondness  for  old  customs,  I  con- 
sented, on  the  following  conditions,  viz.,  that  it  should  not  come  off  (I 
believe)  on  Ash  Wednesday ;  and  that  the  parties  should  not  conclude  the 
proceedings  by  drinking  in  one  of  the  many  public  houses  in  the  village. 
A  promise  to  abide  by  these  terms  was  made,  and  everything  went  off 
quietly  on  the  day  of  the  revel  or  fair.  I  left  the  parish  shortly  after- 
wards, and  it  appears  that  the  custom  of  keeping  the  anniversary  of  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone's  (or  some  other  person's)  capture  ceased  two  or  three 
years  afterwards.  I  should  observe  that  Mr.  Engevell  is  wrong  in  head- 
ing the  story  as  '  Hunting  the  Earl  of  Rone  ;'  it  should  have  been  'Hunt- 
ing the  Hare  of  Rone.'  I  perfectly  well  remember  my  amusement  when 
the  leader  of  the  proceedings,  an  intelligent  old  sailor,  explained  to  me 
that  the  '  Hare  of  Rone'  was  a  great  Irish  rebel,  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  !" 

The  commemoration,  and  the  legend  connected  with  it,  were 
deemed  very  curious,  but  none  of  the  members  present  seemed 
able  to  reconcile  it  with  the  known  history  of  the  O'Neills  of  Ty- 
rone, who  furnished  political  refugees  certainly,  but  not,  so  far  as 
authentic  history  had  recorded,  any  one  who  was  captured  in  Eng- 
land. 

The  Rev.  John  O'Hanlon  sent,  in  continuation  of  his  former 
papers,  an  account  of  the  materials  for  Irish  County  Histories,  con- 
tained in  the  Irish  Ordnance  Survey  documents,  so  far  as  related 
to  the  counties  of  Sligo  and  Roscommon,  as  follows : — 

"  Having  so  far  described  the  MS.  materials  for  County  Histories 
relating  to  Leinster,  Ulster,  and  Munster,  it  only  remains  to  give  an  out- 
line of  the  Irish  Ordnance  Survey  documents,  which  have  reference  to 
the  province  of  Connaught.  I  shall  therefore  commence  with  the  county 
of  Sligo : — 

"  The  Topographical  Collection  Catalogue  for  Sligo  presents  the  an- 
nexed enumeration  of  County  Records,  viz.: — I.  Inquisition  in  Common 
Place  Book,  M.1  II.  Names  from  Down  Survey,  see  Connaught  volume. 
III.  Extracts,  one  volume;2  see  also  Common  Place  Books,  N.  and  M. 

1  Now  preserved  in  the  Library  of  the  to  Irish  Part  of  Local  Names,  noticed 
Royal  Irish  Academy.  as  not  arranged,  has  been  used  for  the 

2  Now  preserved  in  the  Royal  Irish  purpose  of  compiling  a  newer  Index  for 
Academy's  Library.     The  Rough  Index  the  Extract  volume. 


104 

Rough  Index  of  Places  to  Irish  Part,  not  arranged.  IV.  Grant  from 
King  Charles  the  2nd,  in  Common  Place  Book,  N.,  with  Queen's  County 
Inquisitions.1  V.  Letters,  one  volume.2  VI.  Name  Books,  50.  VII.  Ba- 
rony and  Parish  Names,  one  volume.  VIII.  Memorandums,  ons  volume. 
IX.  County  Index  of  Names  on  Ordnance  Maps,  one  volume.  X.  County 
Queries  and  Presentments,  one.  XI.  Memoir  Papers  (see  Detailed  List 
annexed). 

"I.  The  Inquisition  relating  to  Sligo,  as  found  in  the  Common  Place 
Book,  M.,  has  been  already  described  in  the  second  series  of  the  '  Journal' 
of  the  Kilkenny  and  South-East  of  Ireland  Archaeological  Society,  Vol.  II. 
for  1858,  at  p.  46,  note  2;  and  p.  100,  note  2.  This  4to  volume  is  now- 
bound  in  the  style  of  the  MSS.,  transferred  to  the  Royal  Irish  Academy. 

44  II.  The  Names  from  Down  Survey  are  contained  in  a  bound  folio 
volume  of  280  pages.  Not  one  half  of  those  pages  are  written.  On  the 
title  page  we  find  inscribed  'CONTENTS — Galway,  page  31  to  49;  Index, 
page  31;  Leitrim,  pages  59  to  143;  Index,  page  59.  Mayo,  pages  151 
to  183;  Index,  page  151.  Sligo,  pages  191  to  279;  Index,  page  191.' 
Under  the  respective  headings  of  Baronies  and  Parishes  are  found — 
usually,  but  not  uniformly,  in  three  columns — the  various  denominations 
of  Forfeited  Lands.  In  several  instances,  these  denominations  are  left  im- 
perfect, with  the  words  *  burned  off'  found  inserted.  From  the  contents, 
an  idea  will  naturally  be  formed  regarding  the  value  of  this  volume  for 
purposes  of  historical  and  topographical  investigation. 

"  The  volume  of  Extracts  is  4to  bound,  and  in  the  style  of  MSS. 
transferred  to  the  Royal  Irish  Academy.  It  contains  428  written  and 
numbered  pages,  besides  33  pages  of  Index  to  Irish  and  English  Denomi- 
nations prefixed,  with  the  following  Maps  on  tracing  paper  postfixed: — 
1.  Trace  from  a  MS.  Map  of  Ireland,  on  vellum,  without  date,  inscribed 
'  To  the  moste  honourable  myne  Especial  1  good  Lorde,  the  Erie  of  Sals- 
barye,  Lord  Highe  Trer  of  Englande.'  This  map  was  made  in  the  six- 
teenth century — 4  Norden' — and  is  divided  into  Provinces,  with  as  many 
counties  as  were  then  in  Ireland,  having  the  names  of  the  principal  pro- 
prietors or  families  resident  in  each  district.  2.  Trace  from  a  MS.  Map 
of  Irelande,  painted  on  vellum  and  illuminated  in  the  reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth.  3.  Trace  from  a  painted  Map  of  Ireland,  by  Overdon  and 
Morden,  London ;  inscribed  to  James  Duke  of  Ormond,  with  letter-press 
inscriptions  taken  from  Speed.  4.  Trace  from  Ortelius  Improved,  or  a 
new  Map  of  Ireland,  wherein  are  inserted  the  principal  families  of  Irish 
and  English  extraction,  who  possessed  that  kingdom  at  the  commence- 
ment of  the  seventeenth  century,  by  Charles  O'Connor,  Esq.  5.  Trace 
from  another  Map  of  Ireland,  on  a  larger  scale,  printed  in  London,  by 
Thomas  Price,  Senex,  and  Maxwell,  in  1711;  inscribed  to  the  Honour- 
able Sir  William  Robinson,  Knight.  6.  Trace  from  a  Map  of  the  Pro- 
vince of  Ulster  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  painted  on  paper,  with 
this  inscription,  '  A  True  Description  of  the  North  Part  of  Irelande, 
to  wute,  from  Dordagh,  northwarde,  cominge  to  the  Dure  or  Island  of 
Ackil,  with  all  the  Havens,  Bares,  Harbours,  and  Islands,  Rocks,  Sand, 
...  set  in  their  course,  height  and  distance,  the  principal  rivers,  in- 

'  Now  preserved  in  the  Royal  Irish  *  Now  preserved  in  the  Royal  Irish 

Academy  s  collection  of  MSS.  Academyfs  Library. 


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land  cities,  fortes,  and  abbies.  7.  Trace  of  a  Map  from  'the  County 
Fermanaghe,'  painted  on  paper,  about  the  reign  of  James  I.  The  follow- 
ing Memorandum  occurs  on  the  back : — '  This  Mappe,  except  M'Guire's 
Country,  called  Fermanaghe,  is  altogether  false,'  8.  Trace  from  a  printed 
Map  of  *  The  Province  of  Connaught,  with  the  Citie  of  Gal  way  described,' 
by  Speed,  London,  1610;  coloured,  from  his  'Theatre  of  Gr.  Britain.' 
9.  Trace  from  a  MS.  Map  of  the  Province  of  Connaught,  on  which  the 
counties,  baronies,  and  parishes  are  marked;  no  date.  This  tracing  is 
taken  from  a  map  in  the  College  Library,  and  out  of  the  same  volume  as 
the  others.  It  includes  the  Co.  Clare,  as  belonging  to  the  province  of 
Connaught,  and  it  excludes  Leitrim  and  Longford.  10.  Trace  from  a 
large  MS.  Map  of  the  Province  of  Connaught,  painted  on  paper,  and  put 
down  on  canvass,  made  from  '  a  view  of  the  Countrie,'  divided  into  coun- 
ties and  baronies,  marking  the  principal  towns,  rivers,  woods,  mountains, 
and  other  noted  places.  This  map  is  not  dated,  but  it  appears  to  have  been 
made  about  the  latter  end  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth  (after  the  division 
of  the  province  into  counties  in  1585,  by  Sir  John  Perrott),  or  in  the 
beginning  of  the  reign  of  James  I.  The  following  inscription  appears  on  the 
back — *  Conaught  and  Thomond.  £.  Browne.'  11.  Slego  County.  A 
small  map  trace:  no  reference  given.  12.  The  County  of  Slego;  from  the 
engraved  Map  of  the  Down  Survey,  1689-  13.  The  last  trace  only  in- 
cludes a  part  of  Sligo  county,  and  it  seems  to  have  been  taken,  as  a  rough 
sketch,  for  the  Ordnance  Survey.  The  extracts  in  this  volume  are 
taken  from  Archdall's  '  Monasticon  Hibernicum,'  '  Annals  of  the  Four 
Masters,'  '  Book  of  Lecan,'  Colgan's  *  Trias  Thaumaturga,'  and  c  Acta 
Sanctorum  Hibernian,'  McFirbis'  'Pedigrees,'  'Letters'  of  Mr.  O'Connor, 
of  Ballanagare;  O'Flaherty's  '  Ogygia,'  '  Life  of  St.  Maodhog,'  Records  in 
the  Rolls  Office. 

"  IV.  The  Grant  from  King  Charles  II.,  in  Common  Place  Book,  ST., 
has  been  already  noticed  in  the  second  series  of  '  Journal,'  vol.  ii.,  at  p. 
100,  note  2. 

"  V.  The  Volume  of  4 to  Letters,  bound  in  the  style  of  MSS.  transferred 
to  the  Royal  Irish  Academy,  contains  465  written  pages,  with  12  pages 
of  Index  prefixed.  In  it  are  included  the  following  Letters,  viz.: — John 
O'Donovan  writes  from  Sligo,  July  3rd,  1836;  do.  July  4th;  do.  July  5th; 
from  the  Heath  House,  July  7th;  Myles  J.  O'Reilly,  note  of  J.  O'Donovan 
appended ;  John  O'Donovan  from  Sligo,  July  7th ;  do.  July  8th ;  do.  from 
Kells,  July  12;  from  Thomas  O'Conor,  Sligo,  August  30th;  do.  Sept. 
1st;  from  John  O'Donovan,  21,  Great  Charles-street,  Sept.  2nd;  from 
Thomas  O'Conor,  Sligo,  Sept.  3rd;  do.  Sept.  4th;  do.  Grange,  Sept.  5th; 
from  John  O'Donovan,  21,  Great  Charles-street,  Sept.  5th;  do.  Sept. 
7th  y  from  Thomas  O'Conor,  Sligo,  Sept.  8th;  from  John  O'Donovan,  21, 
Great  Charles-street,  Sept.  9th;  do.  Sept.  I0th;  from  P.  O'Keefe,  Boyle, 
Sept.  llth;  from  Thomas  O'Conor,  Sligo,  Sept.  12th;  do.  Sept.  12th; 
from  P.  O'Keefe,  Boyle,  Sept.  12th;  from  John  O'Donovan,  21,  Great 
Charles-street,  Sept.  14;  from  Thomas  O'Conor,  Riverstown,  Sept.  15th; 
from  John  O'Donovan,  21,  Great  Charles-street,  Sept.  16th;  do.  Sept. 
16th;  from  Thomas  O'Conor,  Sligo,  Sept.  17th;  from  P.  O'Keefe,  Boyle, 
Sept.  17th;  from  Thomas  O'Conor,  Sligo,  Sept.  19th;  from  John 
O'Donovan,  21,  Great  Charles-street,  Sept.  20th  ;  do.  no  date;  from 
Thomas  O'Conor,  Ballina,  Sept.  20th;  from  John  O'Donovan,  21,  Great 


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Charles-street,  Sept.  2 1st;  from  Thomas  O'Conor,  Ballina,  Sept.  21st; 
from  John  O'Donovan,   21,  Great  Charles-street,  Sept.  22nd;  from  P. 

v     11-        .   OIL..        .  rv/~i -    -D^u: —     o 4.    oo~  J  . 


from  Thos.  O'Conor,  Collooney,  Sept.  29th;  do.  from  John  O'Donovan,  21, 
Great  Charles-street,  Sept.  27th;  do.  Sept.  30th;  from  Thos.  O'Conor,  Col- 
loney,  Sept.  30th;  do.  Tubbercurry,  Oct.  1st;  from  P.  O'Keefe,  Ballymote, 
Oct.  2nd;  from  Thos.  O'Conor,  Ballina,  Oct.4th;  do.  Sligo,  Oct.  5th;  do. 
Oct.  7th;  fromdo.21,  Great  Charles-street,  Oct.  10th;  do.  do.  Oct.  13th; 
a  Dissertation  received  from  P.  O'Keefe,  Oct.  14th,  no  address;  notes  from 
John  O'Donovan,  21,  Great  Charles-street,  Oct.  13th;  do.  Oct.  17th;  a 
long  and  beautifully  written  letter  from  George  Petrie,  dated  Rathcar- 
rick,  county  of  Sligo,  August  12th,  1837.  This  is  interspersed  with 
elegant  ink  sketches  of  many  ancient  monuments  in  this  county.  la 
some  of  Mr.  O'Donovan's  letters,  also,  there  are  to  be  found  rude  drawings 
of  antiquities  by  the  writer. 

,  *'  VI.  The  Name-Books  are  50  in  number,  as  I  find  on  counting 
them.  In  shape,  size,  and  plan  they  are  similar  to  others  of  a  like  de- 
nomination. 

"  VII.  The  Barony  and  Parish  Names  are  found  in  a  thin  oblong  4to 
volume,  covered  with  pasteboards.  This  book  was  compiled  in  1836.  It 
has  an  Index  of  27  Authorities  preceding,  and  they  are  taken  from  maps, 
surveys,  and  records.  It  contains  50  leaves,  on  each  of  which  Dr. 
O'Donovan  has  settled  the  parish  orthography  in  Irish,  with  the  equiva- 
lent meaning  in  English.  He  enters,  also,  many  curious  topographical 
comments. 

"VIII.  The  single  volume  of  Memorandums  is  abound  4to  of  118 
pages.  It  contains  curious  notes  and  observations,  sketches  and  map -traces. 
It  has  seven  columns  of  Index,  on  four  pages  preceding. 

"  IX.  The  folio  bound  volume  of  Index  of  Names  on  Ordnance  Survey 
Maps,  for  this  county,  contains  02  leaves  of  triple  denominations  on  slips, 
pasted  on  either  side  of  each  leaf. 

'*  X.  The  County  Queries  and  Presentments  are  found  in  an  unbound 
small  printed  pamphlet  of  72  pages.  This  tract  refers  only  to  the  fiscal 
business  of  Sligo  county  for  the  Summer  Assizes  of  1835. 

41 XI.  In  the  Detailed  List  of  Memoir  Papers  for  Sligo,  I  find  a 
Statistical  Report  of  Emlaghfad,  Ballymote,  kept  on  shelf  5  in  the  Ord- 
nance Survey  Library  Press.  Again,  on  shelf  2,  there  is  to  be  found 
some  miscellaneous  matter  relating  to  this  county. 

"  There  are  no  drawings  of  antiquities  for  this  county,  amongst  the 
separate  Portfolio  Sketches,  preserved  in  the  Royal  Irish  Academy. 

14  The  Catalogue  of  Topographical  Collection  for  Eoscommon  gives 
the  following  list  of  records,  viz. : — I.  Inquisitions,  4  volumes,  including 
Leitrim  and  part  of  Mayo.  Rough  Index  of  Places  to  do.1  II.  Letters,8 

»  Now  preserved  in  the  Library  of  the  attached  to  these  volumes,  making  their 

Royal  Irish  Academy.      The   original  contents  available. 

Rough  Index  has  been  used  aa  material  »  Now  preserved  in  the  Library  of  the 

for  compiling  an  improved  Index,  now  Royal  Irish  Academy. 


107 

2  volumes.  III.  Name  Books,  87.  IV.  Barony  and  Parish  Names, 
1  volume.  Y.  Memorandums,  1  vol.  VI.  County  Index  of  Names  on 
Ordnance  Maps,  1  vol.  VII.  County  Presentments,  1835  (one  part). 
VIII.  Memoir  Papers  (see  detailed  list  annexed).  IX.  Extracts,  2  vols. 
(Rough  Index  of  Places  to  Irish  Part,  not  arranged).1 

"  I.  These  Inquisitions  have  been  already  described  in  the  second  series 
of  'Journal,'  vol.  ii.  at  p.  103,  note  2.  They  are  now  bound  in  three  vo- 
lumes, quarto,  in  the  style  adopted  for  MSS.  transferred  to  the  lloyal  Irish 
Academy.  The  volumes,  lettered  xxv.  xxvi.  in  the  former  enumeration,  are 
now  bound  together  in  the  first  volume.  The  second  volume  comprises  the 
former  vol.  xxvii.  The  third  volume  comprises  the  former  vol.  xxviii.  But, 
in  this  latter  instance,  I  find  that  there  are  only  159  written  pages — in  the 
first  instance  set  down  at  241.  However,  the  Rough  Index,  now  pre- 
served at  the  end,  made  up  the  remainder.  In  addition  to  this,  there  is 
a  General  Alphabetical  Index  of  297  pages  carefully  compiled,  and  re- 
ferring to  the  names  in  the  three  volumes  of  the  Academy  Collection, 
with  exact  pagination. 

"  II.  The  First  Volume  of  Roscommon  Antiquarian  Letters  contains 
298  unbound  pages.  In  it  are  included  the  following  letters,  viz.  : — D 
H.  Kelly,  Esq.,  writes  from  Castlekelly,  May  3 1st,  1837;  do.  July  3rd 
John  O'Donovan  writes  from  Athlone,  June  1st,  1837;  do.  June  1st 
Dr.  J.  H.  Todd  writes  from  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  June  7th,  1837 
Dr.  O'Donovan  writes  from  Aughrahan  Castle,  June  7th,  1837  ;  from 
Castlekelly,  June 9th;  do.  June  9th;  do.  June  12th;  do.  June  14th  ;  from 
Ballinasloe,  June  14th;  do.  June  16th;  from  Beal-atha-na-sluagh,  June 
18th  ;  from  Ballinasloe,  June  18th;  from  Athlone,  June  20th  ;  do.  June 
22nd  ;  from  Knockcroghery,  June  23rd  ;  from  Roscommon,  June  25th; 
do.June26th;  do.June28th;  do. June 29th;  do.  June 29th;  do.  June 30th; 
do.  June  30th,  Friday  night,  half  past  twelve  ;  do.  July  1st;  do.  July  1st  ; 
fromCastlereagh,  July  3rd;  do.  July  4th;  do.  July  5th;  do.  July  7th;  do. 
July  8th;  do.  July  8th ;  do.  July  10th  ;  from  Balanagare,  July  1 1th;  do. 
July  14th;  do.  July  15th;  from  Boyle,  July  16th;  do.  July  19th;  do.  July 
21st;  do.  July  23rd;  do.  July  24th;  do.  July  27th  ;  from  Elphin,  July 
27th;  do.  July  28th;  do.  July  30th  ;  Chi  pmn,  July  31st  ;  in  all  forty- 
six  letters.  An  Index  of  eleven  pages  precedes  them.  The  second 
volume  contains  298  numbered  pages,  including  maps  and  traces.  In  it 
the  following  letters  are  found,  viz.  :  John  O'Donovan  writes  from 
Elphin,  August  1st,  1837;  do.  August  4th;  do.  August  6th  ;  Dr.  J.  H. 
Todd  writes  from  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  August  7th  ;  J.  O'Donovan 
writes  from  Alfin,  August  8th  ;  Elphin,  August  9th;  do.  August  9th  ; 
Alfin,  August  10th  ;  Elphin,  August  10th  ;  Sunday,  August  13th  ; 
Bellnambullia,  or  Stokestown,  August  12th;  Saturday;  beal  na  mbuile, 
Belnambullia,  or  Stokestown,  August  16th;  do.  August  16th;  do.  August 
17th;  do.  August  18th;  do.  August  19th  ;  Dr.  Petrie  writes  a  note  to 
Mr.  Larcom,  dated  September  8th,  1837;  John  O'Donovan  writes  from 
Athlone,  August  24th  ;  T.  Larcom  writes  a  note  6th  September,  1837 ; 

1  Now  preserved  in  the  Library  of  the  noticed  as  not  arranged,  has  been  used 
Royal  Irish  Academy.  The  Rough  In-  and  redistributed  in  the  volumes  of  Ex- 
dex  of  Places  to  Irish  Part,  which  is  tracts  here  mentioned. 


108 

John  O'Donovan  writes  from  Athlone,  September  8th  ;  from  Taylor's 
Hill  near  Galway,  July  9th,  1839  ;  from  Athlone,  August  26th,  1837; 
do  August  26th  ;  next  follows  a  long  letter  ftom  George  Petrie,  dated 
21  Great  Charles-street,  September  4th  ;  another  letter  from  the  same 
writer  dated  do.  June  19th  ;  another  note  from  the  same  writer,  dated 
do  July  7th,  with  appended  note  of  Thomas  O'Connor,  which  is  not 
dated;  then  Dr.  Petrie  writes  a  note,  dated  July  20th;  do.  July  22nd;  and 
one  note  dated  Boyle,  Sunday  morning.  John  O'Donovan  has  another 
letter  to  Thomas  A.  Larcom,  Esq.,  dated  21,  Grept  Charles-street,  April 
10th,  1838;  in  all,  thirty  one  letters  and  notes./ An  Index  of  nine  pages 
precedes  these  communications.  Appended  to  this  second  volume,  we 
find  the  following  Maps  and  Traces  folded  into  it,  viz  : — 1.  County  Ros- 
coinmon  Map,  from  Down  Survey.  2.  Ortelius  Improved.  3.  Merca- 
tor's  Maps  of  Leath  Chuin.  4.  An  old  Map  of  Connaught  and  Thomond. 
5.  Trace  of  Inchclerawn  or  Quaker's  Island,  showing  the  situation  of  the 
old  churches.  These  MS.  volumes  are  quarto,  and  bound  in  the  style  of 
MSS.  transferred  to  the  Royal  Irish  Academy. 

"  III.  Name  Books  are  in  number  87,  as  I  find  on  counting  them.  In 
shape  and  subject  matter,  they  are  similar  to  others  of  the  series,  already 
described. 

"IV.  The  Barony  and  Parish  Names  are  found  in  a  thin  quarto  volume, 
covered  with  thick  pasteboard.  It  contains  sixty-two  numbered  pages, 
each  page  numbered  only  on  one  side  of  the  leaf.  It  has  a  list  of  twenty- 
seven  authorities  preceding.  They  are  taken  from  Maps,  Surveys,  and 
printed  Records.  Dr.  O'Donovan  has  settled  the  orthography  of  the 
Parish  Names  in  Irish,  and  in  their  English  equivalents.  There  are, 
also,  many  of  his  valuable  topographical  comments  on  nearly  every 
page. 

"  V.  The  Memorandums  are  in  one  bound  quarto  volume  of  fragmen- 
tary notes,  observations,  sketches  of  monuments,  and  map-tracings.  This 
MS.  has  237  numbered  pages,  of  varied  topographical  information.  It 
has,  also,  a  prefixed  Index  of  seventeen  pages,  mostly  double-columns 
of  denominations. 

"  VI.  The  County  Index  of  Names  on  Ordnance  Maps  is  contained  in 
one  folio  bound  volume.  It  contains  eighty-one  leaves,  with  slips  of 
triple  denominations,  pasted  on  both  sides  of  each  leaf. 

"VII.  The  County  Presentments  of  1835  are  found  in  a  small  printed 
pamphlet  having  but  a  few  pages,  only  referring  to  Ballintobber  and  Boyle 
Baronies,  solely  relating  to  Grand  Jury  Presentments  and  Estimates  for 
County  Fiscal  business.  The  first  pages,  to  page  sixty-one,  are  missing. 

"  VIII.  When  referred  to  the  Detailed  List  annexed  of  miscellanies 
regarding  Roscommon  County,  whatever  relates  to  it  will  be  found  on 
shelf  2  of  the  Press,  within  the  Irish  Ordnance  Survey  Library. 

"  IX.  The  First  Volume  of  Extracts  contains  547  written  pages  of 
Excerpts.  The  Second  Volume  contains  467  written  pages  of  Excerpts. 
These  Extracts  are  taken  from  Colgan's  '  Acta  Sanctorum  Hibernise,'  and 
'  Trias  Thaumaturga;'  '  Memoirs'  of  Charles  O'Conor  ;  Lanigan's  4  Eccle- 
siastical History  of  Ireland  ;'  '  Annals  of  Four  Masters  ;'  '  Irish  Calen- 
dar ;"  Monasticon  Hibernicum ;'  'M'Firbis;'  •  Book  of  Lecan  ;'  'Keating;' 
'O'Clery  MSS. ;'  M'Keogh's  'Account  of  Roscommon  ;'  'Lives  of  Irish 


109 

Saints,' Marsh's  Library;  'Begistry  of  Clonmacnoise' ;  *  Annals  of  Boyle'; 
4  Liber  Regalis  Visitations'  ;  '  Pedigree  of  O'Kelly' from  <  Office  of  Ulster 
King-at-Arms' ;  O'Flaherty's  '  Ogygia' ;  'Annals  of  Kilronan' ;  De 
Burgo's  4  Hibernia  Dominicana' ;  O'Sullivan  Beare  ;  '  Dublin  Inquisi- 
tion* ;  with  many  detached  notes  and  papers.1 

"  There  are  no  Portfolio  Sketches  of  Antiquities  for  this  county  pre- 
served in  the  Eoyal  Irish  Academy." 

The  following  papers  were  submitted  to  the  Members: — 


TOPOGRAPHICAL  AND  HISTORICAL  ILLUSTRATIONS  OF 
THE  COUNTY  AND  CITY  OF  KILKENNY. 

BY  JOHN  HOGAN. 

Continued  from  Vol.  F.,  new  series,  p.  251. 

As  we  approached  the  close  of  the  last  section  of  our  illustration 
of  the  topography  of  Kilkenny,  the  united  testimony  of  the  many 
surviving  vestiges  of  its  primitive  civilization  constrained  us  to 
acknowledge  the  site  of  our  present  city  as  the  local  representative 
of  the  ancient  mansion  place  of  the  kings  of  Osraigh.  This  con- 
clusion, though  the  inevitable  result  of  our  researches  on  that  oc- 
casion, stands,  in  antagonism  with  the  views  of  some  of  our  most 
esteemed  authorities2  on  local  antiquarian  lore,  which  throws  on  us 

'Six  pages  of  Index  are  affixed  for  (for  centuries  the  residence  of  the  kings 

both  volumes.  of  Ossory)  derived  its  origin  in  the  time 

2  Esteemed  authorities. — Bishop  Roth  of  Henry  II.,  from  a  few  tenants  from 

was  the  first  who  denied  to  Kilkenny  Aghabo,  and  as  many  English  and  Fle- 

the  honour  of  a  pre-English  existence.  mish  adventurers,  must  have  been  in- 

Roth  is  much  extolled  by  his  biographers  fluenced  by  the  same  predilections  for  his 

beyond  the  sea  which  shaped 


and  reviewers  as  an  adept  in  ecclesiasti-  relatives 

cal  learning,  and  as  an  eminent  theolo-  and  determined  the  public  policy  of 'his 
gian  and  canonist ;  yet  he  appears  to  life.  In  his  writings  Roth  does  not  con-- 
hold but  an  inferior  position  in  Irish  ceal  his  English  proclivities,  and  dur- 
historical  literature  amongst  the  nu-  ing  the  eventful  period  of  the  Catholic 
merous  writers  of  the  seventeenth  cen-  Confederation,  in  the  deliberations  and 
tury.  His  account  of  the  original  esta-  acts  of  which  he  played  so  important 
blishment  of  Kilkenny  is  as  fanciful  as  a  part,  he  systematically  sided  with  the 
it  is  untenable,  and  though  admirable  as  Catholics  of  English  descent  in  opposi- 
a  well-drawn  picture,  it  never  can  be  tion  to  the  views  of  the  native  Irish  of 
accepted  as  of  historical  authority,  be-  the  same  creed.  Roth  was  much  fasci- 
ing  much  more  remarkable  for  its  terse  nated  by  the  natural  as  well  as  the 
and  graphic  embellishments  than  for  artistic  beauties  of  his  native  city,  but 
archaic  consistency,  or  original  re-  he  is  equally  in  admiration  of  the  people 
search.  The  Irish  scholar  of  his  day  and  institutions  of  England,  and  as  of 
who  could  stand  amidst  the  then  visible  old  "Nothing  good  can  come  from 
remains  of  the  primitive  "Cill-Cain-  Nazareth,"  so  with  Roth,  by  an  opposite 
nigh,"  and  assert  that  this  ancient  city  impulse,  "  all  that  was  good  should  come 

Q 


110 

the  responsibility  of  sustaining  that  proposition  by  evidence  more 
direct  than  that  already  adduced  in  its  support.  I  he  antiquities 
of  the  city  of  Kilkenny,  for  which  I  claim  a  pre-Enghsh  origin, 
may  be  enumerated  under  the  five  following  heads,  viz. :— 

The  remains  of  its  ancient  roadways. 

The  site  of  its  ancient  castle. 

Its  cloichteach  or  round  tower. 

The  sites  of  its  ancient  churches,  and 

Its  cathedral. 

The  dun,  or  fortress,  that  occupied  the  site  of  the  present  castle, 
before  the  English  invasion,  I  hold  to  have  been  the  residence  of 
the  kings  of  Osraigh.  The  round  towers  of  this  city  and  county, 
from  the  many  circumstances  which  connect  their  respective  sites 
with  the  public  deeds  of  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal  appear  to  have 
been  erected  by  that  distinguished  chieftain.  The  church  of  St. 
Cainneach  I  accept  as  the  foundation  of  that  saint  himself.  Three 
of  the  other  ancient  churches  as  the  foundations  of  Donnchadh 
Mac  Kellach.  By  the  Cathedral,1  I  design  to  imply  the  seat  of  the 


from  England;" 'and  this  "wish  being 
father  to  the  thought,"  suggested  to  him 
the  very  puerile  romance,  "  that  three 
diverse  nations  who  finally  coalesced  in 
one  gave  their  aid  to  found  the  city 
of  Kilkenny  first,"  writes  our  author : 
"  Felix  O'Dullany  betook  himself  to  this 
place  with  his  husbandmen  and  tenants, 
and  laid  the  foundation  of  the  church 
as  of  the  burgh,"  i.  e.  founded  both  the 
church  and  the  borough  of  Irishtown  ; 
secondly,  the  Earl  Marschall  and  his  re- 
tainers founded  the  castle  and  burgh  of 
Kilkenny ;  and  thirdly,  a  colony  of  Fle- 
mings settled  here,  and  was  gradually 
absorbed  by  the  "  Celts  and  Saxons," 
and  then,  continues  the  bishop  :  "  from 
these  three  original  nations,  fused  into 
one  common  people  with  a  certain  graft- 
ing and  mingling  of  race  by  marriage, 
and  the  procreation  of  children, .  .sprung 
that  inhabitation  which  we  [now]  see." 
This  is  all  very  beautiful,  but  it  pos- 
sesses more  of  the  elegance  of  poetry 
than  of  the  stern  realities  of  fact.  If 
the  site  of  our  present  city  was  uninha- 
bited until  the  arrival  of  the  "  three 
tribes,"  what  was  the  object  of  having 
it  furnished  with  seven  stone  churches  ? 
Who  built  them,  and  for  what  purpose? 
More  than  a  century  before  Felix  O'Dul- 
lany or  his  tenants  from  Aghabo  could 
have  arrived  here,  we  read  in  the  Irish 
"Annals"  "A.D.  1085,  Ceal-Cainnigh 
was  for  the  most  part  burned;"  and 
more  than  thirty  years  before  O'Dullany 


was  raised  to  the  episcopacy  of  Ossory, 
"The  Four  Masters"  record:  "A.D. 
1146,  Gillaphadraig,  Lord  of  Osraighe, 
was  killed  by  the  O'Braenains  in  the  mid- 
dle ofCill-Cainnigh."  I  am  not  going  to 
discuss  this  point  here,  and  I  give  these 
cases  only  to  show  that  this  story  is  little 
more  than  pure  fiction.  Roth  appears 
to  have  been  well  versed  in  the  eccle- 
siastical statistics  of  his  time,  and  to 
have  had  access  to  rare  and  valuable 
muniments  relative  to  the  history  of  the 
country  subsequent  to  the  Anglo-Nor- 
man Invasion  ;  but  he  does  not  appear 
to  have  had  any  taste  for  the  pre-Eng- 
lish  history  of  Ireland.  It  may  be  safely 
asserted  that,  in  this  department  he 
had  neither  the  opportunities  nor  the 
erudition  of  Keating,  Ware,  Ussher, 
Lynch,  O'Flaherty,  Colgan,  O'Clery, 
&c.,  &c.,  and  therefore  we  are  justified 
in  demurring  to  his  dictum  respecting 
the  origin  of  Kilkenny,  standing  as  that 
dictum  does,  in  antagonism  with  the  com- 
bined testimony  of  written  and  monu- 
mental history.  In  the  "  Transactions," 
vol.  ii.,  p.  324,  new  series,  will  be  found 
Roth's  interesting,  but  imaginative  nar- 
rative of  the  original  establishment  of 
Kilkenny.  In  the  "  History,  Antiquities, 
&c.,  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of  St.  Ca- 
nice"  c.  ii.,  p.  22,  will  also  be  found  an- 
other beautiful  fragment  of  his  writings. 
1  Cathedral. — Archbishop  Ussher,  and 
after  him,  and  on  his  authority,  Dr.  La- 
nigan  and  the  Rev.  James  Graves,  as- 


Ill 

diocesan  chapter  and  episcopacy,  not  the  existing  Church  of  St. 
Canice.  The  illustration  of  these  several  propositions  is  invested 
with  no  small  degree  of  interest,  for  those  at  least  who  feel  con- 
cerned for  the  native  nobility  of  this  ancient  town  ;  yet  it  must  be 
conceded  that  the  historical  materials  requisite  to  establish  them 
are  indeed  scarce  and  meagre ;  the  unsparing  hand  of  time,  the 
social  transitions  consequent  on  the  establishment  here  of  English 
institutions,  combined  with  the  destructive  effects  of  centuries  of 
civil  and  religious  warfare,  have  all  but  obliterated  from  the  muni- 
ments of  our  national  archives  the  existence  of  the  ancient  city  of 
Osraigh  ;  yet  its  prominent  outlines  are  still  traceable,  and  the  sur- 
viving fragments  of  its  primitive  institutions  are  most  authentic 
vouchers  for  its  ante-Norman  origin.  The  scanty  memorials  pre- 
served of  the  dynasts  of  Osraigh  incidentally  open  many  interesting 
vistas,  in  which  we  obtain  new  views  of  the  extent  and  configuration 
of  the  ancient  Cill-Gainnigh^  and  which  serve  to  explain  the  cause 
and  design  of  much  of  its  present  peculiar  topography.  In  this 
essay  we  propose  to  glean  from  the  pages  of  all  accessible  sources 
of  authority  such  memoirs  as  exist  of  the  life  and  times  of  each  of 
the  kings  of  Osraigh,  from  the  accession  of  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal 
to  the  English  Invasion.  We  shall  occasionally  saunter  amidst  the 
mouldering  remains  of  their  princely  mansion  place,  and  see  if  we 
cannot  discover  in  the  ruins  of  its  venerable  institutions  some  remi- 
niscence of  that  ancient  city,  once  the  seat  of  royalty,  and  the  centre 
of  authority  in  this  historic  principality,  and  this  introduces  us  to 
the  next  section  of  our  inquiry,  namely — 

THE  HISTORY  AND  SUCCESSION  OF  THE  KINGS  OF  OSRAIGH. — 
The  Ossorians  are  descended  from  Conla,  son  of  Bresal  Brec,  son 
of  Crimthann  Qosgrach,  King  of  Ireland,  A.M.  3841.  "Bresal 
was  father  of  Fergus,  the  sailor,  from  whom  are  descended  the 
kings  of  Leinster  and  of  Conla,  the  progenitor  of  the  Ossorians, 

sert  that  at  the  period  of  Felix  O'Dul-  Gillaphadraig  from  the  estates  and 
lany's  death,  Achabo  was  the  site  of  the  mansion  of  his  ancestors,  and  who,  re- 
cathedral  of  Ossory ;  and  in  order  to  tiring  with  this  king  to  the  northern 
avoid  even  an  apparent  collision  with  districts  of  the  diocese,  fixed  his  cathe- 
such  high  and  esteemed  authorities,  it  dral,  under  the  guardianship  of  this 
is  necessary  to  anticipate  here  one  of  the  dynast,  at  Aghabo,  where,  safe  from  de- 
points  to  be  discussed  in  the  third  sec-  secration,  it  continued  till  O'Dullany's 
tion  of  this  essay,  viz.,  that  we  have  ma-  death  ;  but  during  his  episcopacy  the 
terials  to  prove  that  Kilkenny  had  been  English  colony  was  being  securely  and 
for  some  period  previous  to  the  Anglo-  permanently  established  in  southern 
Norman  Invasion  the  seat  of  the  dio-  Ossory,  and  through  English  influence 
cesan  chapter  and  episcopacy,  until,  in  Rufus,  his  successor,  was  promoted  to 
consequence  of  the  disturbance  of  the  be  its  '«  first  English  bishop."  On  the 
times,  the  cathedral  was  removed  to  same  ground  that  justified  its  removal, 
Aghabo,  apparently  by  Donald  O'Fo-  the  cathedral  was  again  transferred 
garta,vwho  was  Bishop  of  Ossory  at  the  from  the  "  Ville  of  Achbo"  to  the  "  citie 
period  of  the  expulsion  of  Donald  Mac  of  Kilkenny." 


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from  whom  the  family  of  the  Fitzpatricks,  Barons  of  Upper  Ossory, 
derive  their  genealogy."1  Two  pedigrees  of  the  Ossorian  family 
are  published— one  by  Keating,2  the  other  by  O'Donovan.3  Some 
discrepancy  exists  between  them,  yet  probably  few  ancient  dynas- 
ties of  Europe  present  a  more  unbroken  succession  for  near  two 
thousand  years  than  does  the  genealogical  table  of  the  royal  house 
of  Osraigh.  Of  the  kings  of  Ossory  down  to  the  ninth  century, 
Aenghus3  alone  stands  out  from  the  list  as  a  character  of  distinc- 
tion.^ Of  his  successors  for  eight  hundred  years  few  memorials  are 
preserved  in  the  Irish  Annals,  or  other  authority  accessible  to  me, 
beyond  the  record  of  their  names  and  obituaries,  a  transcript  of 
which  could  in  no  degree  contribute  to  the  object  of  this  essay. 
In  the  early  part  of  the  ninth  century,  the  invasion  of  the  Danes 
aroused  into  activity  the  dormant  energies  of  chiefs  and  toparchs, 
and  then  the  dynasts  of  Osraigh,  smarting  under  the  lash  of  the  in- 
vaders, rise  with  the  circumstances  of  the  times,  and  distinguish 
themselves  henceforward  in  the  general  struggle  for  native  free- 
dom, and  in  this  epoch  their  history  opens. 

At  the  year  823,  we  read  in  the  Irish  Annals,  "  a  victory  was 
gained  by  the  foreigners  over  the  Osraighi."  This  is  the  earliest 
notice  we  have  of  any  attack  by  the  Danes  on  the  kingdom  of 
Osraigh.  In  the  year  819,  they  plundered  Edar,  now  Howth,  near 
Dublin,  whence  "  they  carried  off  a  great  prey  of  women."  In  the 
same  year  they  plundered  Beg-Eire,  now  Begery,  a  small  island  in 
Wexford  harbour.  The  next  year  (820),  we  trace  them  at  Cork 
and  other  southern  stations,  all  of  which  clearly  indicate  their  line 
of  attack  to  have  been  down  the  eastern  sea  board  of  Ireland, 
towards  which  they  sallied  forth  from  the  Hebrides,  their  original 
depot  in  the  British  islands  ;  hence  it  is  clear  that  they  must  have 
effected  a  settlement  in  Waterfbrd  about  the  year  820,  whence 
there  cannot  be  a  doubt  that  their  first  attack  on  Osraigh  in  823 
resulted  from  the  debarkation  of  their  fleet,  then  anchored  in  the 
bay  of  "  Port  Largie,"  the  original  name  of  Waterford,  and  from 
which  they  subsequently  wasted  and  harassed  the  southern  tribe 
lands  of  Osraigh.  In  the  year  836  they  burned  the  churches  of 
Kil-Finnche,  which,  according  to  a  former  inquiry,  appears  to  have 
occupied  the  site,  if  it  be  not  the  present  church  of  Sheepstown, 
near  Knock topher,  and  St.  Laichtains,  the  predecessor  of  the  fine 

'"Ogygia,"  vol.  ii.,  p.  140,  Hely's  3  O'Donovan's  genealogical  table  of 

edition,  Dublin,  1793.  the  Ossorians  will  be  found  in  the  form 

*  Keating's  "  Pedigree  of  the  Fitzpa-  of  a  supplement  to  the  first  vol.  of  the 

tricks,  Kings  of  Ossory,"  will  be  found  Society's  "Transactions"  for  the  year 

at  the  close  of  the  second  volume  of  his  1850.  In  the  following  papers  the  ge- 

History  of  Ireland  ;  the  copy  here  used  nealogy  of  the  Four  Masters  is  preferred 

is  the  Dublin  edition,  1809,  vol.  ii.,  to  that  of  either  Keating  or  O'Dono- 

p.  438,  et  seq.  Tan. 


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old  church  of  Freshford.  Dunghal  was  King  of  Osraigh  during  the 
period  of  these  assaults  on  his  kingdom,  and  from  the  results  it  would 
seem  that  he  was  but  ill  qualified  to  hold  his  own  against  the  ad- 
vances of  those  bold  adventurers.  If,  however,  he  himself  was  not 
equal  to  the  emergency,  he  bequeathed  to  his  son  and  successor  a 
spirit  of  bravery  which  enabled  him  to  cope  with  the  difficulties, 
and  rendered  him  one  of  the  most  distinguished  heroes  of  his  age. 
King  Dunghal  was  descended  in  the  twenty-first  degree1  from 
Aenghus  Osraigh,  the  founder  of  the  kingdom  ;  he  was  the  son 
of  Fearghal,  whom  he  succeeded  in  the  year  797  ;  he  died  in  841. 
We  read  of  three  of  his  children  who  survived  him,  namely,  Mael- 
tuile,  who  died  Abbot  of  Beanchoir  (Bangor),  A.  D.  884  ;  Lann, 
queen  of  Mealseachlainn,  orMalachy,  King  of  Meath,  at  the  period 
of  his  marriage,  but  subsequently  monarch  of  the  whole  island ; 
and  Cearbhall,  or  Carroll,  who  succeeded  him  in  the  kingdom  of 
Osraigh  in  the  year  841,  and  in  whom  the  family  rose  into  dis- 
tinction, and  its  members  became  recognized  as  dynasts  of  authority 
amongst  the  potentates  of  the  nation.  The  three  great  septs  or 
families  which  furnished  kings  to  the  principality  of  Osraigh,  for 
about  three  hundred  years  before  the  Anglo-Norman  Invasion,  are 
known  by  the  denominations  of  the  clann  Cearbhall,  the  clann 
Donnchadh,  and  the  Mac  Gillaphadriag.  The  last  was  but  a  pa- 
tronymick  assumed  by  the  clann  Donnchadh  as  a  family  title. 


1  Twenty-first  degree — According  to 
Keating's  pedigree  there  are  but  eighteen 
descents  from  Aenghus  to  Dunghal. 
O'Donovan  makes  it  twenty-one:  neither 
can  be  correct,  as  there  must  necessarily 
elapse  from  the  death  of  Aenghus,  to- 
wards the  close  of  the  first  century,  to 
that  of  Dunghal,  in  841,  about  750 
years.  Keating's  eighteen  descents,  at 
thirty  years  to  each  generation,  make 
540  years;  and  O'Donovan's  twenty-one 
will  amount  only  to  630  years.  Unfor- 
tunately \ve  have  not  the  Four  Mas- 
ters to  guide  us  so  far  back  in  the  af- 
fairs of  Ossory  as  the  period  in  which 
Aenghus  lived.  The  earliest  notice  by 
those  annalists  of  a  king  of  Ossory  is 
Fearadagh,  the  son  of  Duach,  and  the 
benefactor  of  St.  Cainneach ;  but  even 
here  an  irreconcileable  discrepancy  oc- 
curs between  O'Donovan's  pedigree  and 
that  of  the  Four  Masters  :  the  latter 
make  Feredach  the  son  of  Duach ; 
O'Donovan  and  Keating  make  him  the 
son  of  Conall,  and  thus  pass  over  two 
generations.  But  on  inquiry  it  appears 
that  Feredach  could  not  have  been  the 


son  of  either  Duach  or  Connall.  St. 
Ciaran,  of  Saigher,  was  the  grandson  of 
Duach,  and  in  his  life  we  read  that, 
when  St.  Patrick  entered  the  city  of 
Cashel,  "  a  descendant  of  Duach,  of  the 
territory  of  Ossory,"  killed  his  horse, 
for  which  St.  Ciaran  had  to  interpose  his 
authority  to  save  his  own  relative  from 
death.  This  event  occurred  about  the 
year  450,  at  which  time  Duach  must 
have  been  one  hundred  years  dead.  How 
then  could  Feredach,  who  was  living 
one  hundred  and  thirty  years  later,  have 
been  his  son  ?  St.  Ciaran  was  the  tenth 
in  descent  from  Aenghus  Osraigh  ;  in 
him  the  suscession  was  broken,  and  af- 
ter him  there  is  a  genealogical  blank  of 
about  one  hundred  years.  Feredach  is 
the  next  King  of  Ossory  named ;  he  died 
in  A.  D.  582,  leaving  between  himself 
and  St.  Kyran  a  hiatus  of  about  one 
hundred  and  twenty  years,  without  a 
single  link  to  connect  them.  From  Fe- 
redach the  genealogical  chain  is  nearly 
correct.  In  those  papers  the  genealogy 
of  the  Four  Masters  will  be  strictly  ad- 
hered to. 


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The  relation  of  the  three  to,  and  their  descent  from,  each  other  will 
appear  from  a  glance  at  the  following  table,  compiled  from  the 
"  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters"  : — 

Cearbhall         son  of  Dunghal,    sue.  A.  D.  841,  founder  of  the  clann  Cearbhall. 
Diarmaid,  ,     Cearbhall,  885  ;  he  was  deposed. 


Ceallach, 

Diarmaid, 

Donnchadh, 

Gillaphadraig, 


Cearbhall, 

Cearbhall, 

Ceallach, 

Donnchadb, 


900,  killed  at  the  battle  of  Bealach- 

mughna. 

908,  restored  on  the  death  of  Ceallach. 
927,  founder  of  the  clann  Donnchadh. 
974,  from  whom  the  Mac  Gillaphadraig. 


We  shall  now  proceed  to  furnish  a  short  memoir  of  each  of  the 
clann  Cearbhall  dynasts,  after  which  we  shall  present  a  few  por- 
traits from  the  clann  Donnchadh,  better  known  as  the  Mac  Gilla- 
phadraig of  Osraigh. 

CEARBHALL  MAC  DUNGHAL. 

The  accession  of  Cearbhall,  or  Carroll,  to  the  government  of  Os- 
raigh is  identified  with  the  most  galling  period  of  the  Danish  rule  in 
Ireland.  It  does  not  come  within  my  design  to  burthen  these  pages 
with  a  recital  of  events  in  connexion  with  this  epoch,  which  more 
immediately  belong  to  the  general  history  of  the  country.  It  will 
suffice  for  our  purpose  to  state,  that  the  Danes  were  complete  masters 
of  the  island  in  the  year  845,  when  their  notorious  leader  Tuirgis,  or 
Turgesius,  usurped  the  supreme  monarchy  of  the  nation,  and  is 
accordingly  recognized  in  the  Annals  of  the  period  as  "King  of 
Ireland."  At  this  same  period  Maelseachlainn,  or  Malachy,  was 
King  of  Meath,  and  the  usurper  erected  his  "castellum"  in  the 
vicinity  of  Malachy's  mansion.  The  two  potentates  became  thus 
acquainted,  and  an  intimate  degree  of  familiarity  is  recorded  to 
have  existed  between  them.  It  has  been  already  stated  that  Lann, 
the  wife  of  Malachy,  was  daughter  to  Dunghal,  and  consequently 
sister  to  Cearbhall,  or  Carroll,  the  then  King  of  Osraigh.  The 
daughter  of  this  lady,  named  Melcha,  was  then  young,  and  has 
been  much  celebrated  for  the  grace  and  beauty  of  her  person,  as 
well  as  for  her  elegant  and  accomplished  manners.  Turgesius  be- 
ing accustomed  to  visit  Malachy  at  his  mansion,  became  captivated 
by  the  charms  of  his  daughter,  and  being,  as  he  supposed,  in  a  posi- 
tion to  demand  the  possession  of  her  person,  submitted  to  Malachy 
the  infamous  proposal.  The  celebrated  stratagem  by  which  the 
King  of  Meath  entrapped  the  licentious  barbarian  is  too  well  known 
to  be  given  here  in  detail ;  it  will  suffice  to  state  that  Malachy  con- 
sented to  deliver  his  daughter  up  to  the  usurper  on  the  condition 
that  she  should  be  accompanied  to  his  palace  on  the  appointed  day 

f  teen  ladies  of  her  own  age,  who  should  act  towards  her  in  the 
capacity  of  maids  of  honour,  and  who  were  to  be  selected  from  the 


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most  beautiful  damsels  of  his  kingdom ;  and  this  condition  being 
willingly  accepted,  fifteen  daring  and  chivalrous  youths,  said  to 
have  been  beardless,  attired  in  female  costume,  conveyed  the  young 
heroine  to  the  palace  of  the  Dane,  and  at  the  moment  of  his  ex- 
pected enjoyment  seized  himself,  slew  the  libertines  by  whom  he 
was  surrounded,  bound  him  in  chains,  and  carried  him  alive  to  the 
feet  of  Malachy,  by  whose  orders  he  was  subsequently  thrown, 
bound  as  he  was  taken,  into  Lough-Owel,  near  Mullingar.  I  in- 
troduce this  scrap  of  historic  romance  here  because  it  appears  more 
than  probable  that  young  Cearbhall  of  Osraigh  may  have  formed 
one  of  the  gallant  cavaliers  who  on  this  occasion  so  nobly  preserved 
the  honour  of  his  sister's  child ;  he  died  in  the  year  885  ;  and  if  we 
allow  him  an  age  of  about  sixty  years  at  the  time  of  his  death,  he 
would  be  about  twenty  at  the  era  of  this  incident ;  indeed  we  can 
well  conceive  the  alacrity  with  which  he  undertook  the  leadership 
in  this  bold  adventure,  in  the  results  of  which  were  involved  the 
honour  of  his  niece  and  the  liberty  of  his  country ;  nor  is  it  intrud- 
ing too  much  on  the  province  of  conjecture  to  assume  that  the 
heroic  achievements  which  characterized  his  future  career  received 
here  their  starting  impulse,  and  that  the  enthusiasm  and  genius  of 
his  character  originated  in  the  success  of  this  brilliant  and  romantic 
exploit. 

A  general  massacre  of  the  Danes  is  recorded  to  have  followed 
the  death  of  Turgesius :  most  of  those  that  escaped  fled  towards 
the  sea  coast  towns,  and  ultimately  contrived  to  concentrate  their 
strength,  and  to  fortify  their  position  in  Dublin,  where,  being  con- 
stantly supplied  by  fresh  arrivals,  they  soon  again  became  formida- 
ble, and  occasionally  sallied  out  from  their  stronghold  and  again 
renewed  their  hostilities  on  the  natives.  Two  years  after  the  death 
of  Turgesius,  in  one  of  those  plundering  excursions,  they  entered 
the  kingdom  of  Osraigh,  and  here  for  the  first  time  we  are  intro- 
duced to  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal  in  the  Irish  Annals.  The  fol- 
lowing is  the  concise  report  of  his  encounter  with  the  Danes : 
"A.D.  845,  A  slaughter  made  of  the  foreigners  of  Ath-cliath 
(Dublin),  at  Carn-Brammit  by  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal,  Lord  of 
Osraigh,  where  twelve  hundred  of  them  were  slain."  A  earn  was 
a  heap  of  uncemented  stones,  raised  as  a  sepulchral  monument  over 
the  grave  of  a  fallen  chief  ;  Carn-Brammit  means  the  grave  of  Bram- 
mit.  A  very  intelligent  native  of  the  place  has  informed  me  that 
the  Irish  form  of  the  present  word  Bramblestown  is  Bally-Bram- 
min,  that  is  the  town  of  Brammin,  obviously  a  modification  of  the 
word  Brammit.  Contiguous  to  Bramblestown  is  situated  the  very 
primitive  hamlet  called  Carn,  which  is  beyond  dispute  the  resting- 
place  of  the  chieftain  from  whom  Bramblestown  has  derived  its 
name  ;  for  as  Bally-Brammin  is  the  town  of  Brammin,  so  Carn 


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Brnmmit  is  the  grave  of  the  same  personage,  and  this  enables  us 
to  identify  the  well  known  townland  of  Cam,  most  probably  the 
very  bally  or  hamlet  of  that  name  as  the  scene  of  the  sanguinary 
conflict.  The  situation  of  Cam  would  also  point  it  out  as  the  scene 
of  the  action,  being  just  inside  of  Bealach  Gabhran,  through  which 
the  Danes  of  Dublin  would  enter  Osraigh  from  their  raid  through 
Leinster.  The  engagement  seems  to  have  been  sharp,  bloody, 
and  decisive,  twelve  hundred  of  the  foreigners  being  slain  by  the 
arms  of  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal  and  the  tribesmen  of  Osraigh. 

In  the  year  846,  "A  defeat  was  given  by  Echthighern  and  the 
Leinstermen  to  the  Osraighi  at  Uachtar-garadha"  On  this  entry 
O' Donovan  observes  in  the  margin  "  Uachtar-garadha,  i.  e.  Upper 
garden  is  probably  the  place  in  the  county  of  Kilkenny  now  called 
by  the  synonymous  name  of  Uachtar-Achaid,  i.  e.  Upper  field,  An- 
glice  Oughteraghy."  This,  however,  he  doubts  himself,  for  he  re- 
fers the  reader  to  his  note  under  the  year  876,  at  which  date  the  fol- 
lowing entry  occurs  in  the  "  Annals":  "  A  battle  was  fought  be- 
tween the  Osraighi  and  the  Leinstermen  at  Uachtar-dara,  when 
Bolgodhar,  son  of  Maelciere,  was  killed."  "  This  Uachtar-dara," 
continues  O'Donovan,  "  is,  most  probably,  Outrath  near  Kilkenny." 
There  are  cogent  reasons  for  concluding  that  Outrath  is  the  place 
referred  to.  In  an  Inquisition  taken  at  "The  Sessions  house, 
Gowran,  17  January,  1632,"  Nic.  Ley,  of  the  city  of  Waterford, 
Alderman,  was  found  seised,  amongst  other  estates,  of  certain  lands 
near  Ballyneleynagh  "of  60  acres,  arable  and  furze  and  1  toft  in 
Foulkestowne,  in  the  tenement  of  Oghteraghie"  These  were  the 
then  denominations  of  the  three  townlands  now  known  as  Bally- 
nalina,  Foulkstown,  and  Outrath,  and  this  last  was  then  recognized 
as  Oughteraghi,  precisely  synonymous  with  Oughteraghy,  the 
Anglicised  form  of  Uachter-garadha  and  Uachter-dara,  which  fully 
sustains  the  conjecture  of  O'Donovan,  that  Outrath  was  the  place 
referred  to  in  both  entries.  The  well-known  village  of  Outrath  is 
situated  about  two  Irish  miles  south  of  Kilkenny  ;  it  is  now  far 
removed  from  every  public  thoroughfare,  but  it  still  retains  many 
traces  of  a  gone-by  importance  :  around  the  now  comfortable  hamlet 
hangs  the  air  of  a  once  hospitable  bailli,  or  Celtic  villa.  The  grand 
prospect  obtained  from  its  old  cemetery,  the  ruined  walls  of  its  pa- 
rochial church,  the  quaint  aspect  of  the  fine  Elizabethan  mansion 
occupied  by  the  present  proprietor,  force  on  an  observer  the  im- 
pression that  years  since  and  this  was  the  centre  of  stirring  scenes, 
and  social  enjoyment. 

The  modern  word  Outrath  is  evidently  formed  of  Outeraghi, 
contracted  into  "  Ought,"  and  prefixed  to  "  rath"  (a  fine  one  of 
which  still  exists  there),  thus  making  Oughtrath,  or  Outrath, 
Oughteraghi-rath,  or  more  properly  Rath-oughteraghi  would  be 


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translated  "  Upper  Rath,"  and  was  apparently  so  denominated 
from  its  relative  situation  with  another  locality  of  a  similar  title ; 
and  what  is  singularly  interesting  here  is,  that  the  two  well- 
known  townlands  of  Outrath  and  Highrath,  though  situated  at 
opposite  sides  of  the  River  Nore,  were  formerly  connected  by  a 
road  now  existing  only  in  isolated  sections,  but  still  traceable  in 
the  topographical  outlines  between  the  two  localities.  The  ob- 
scure bosheen  that  now  leads  from  the  Waterford  road  by  the 
churchyard  of  Outrath  ends  in  Mr.  Walshe's  farmyard  ;  but  an 
inspection  of  the  place  itself,  or  of  the  Townland  Survey  (sheet 
19),  will  convince  an  inquirer  that  it  formerly  ran  through  R,ag- 
getsland  into  Warrington,  through  the  centre  of  which  its  track 
is  plainly  marked  down  to  the  Bennetsbridge  road,  and  thence 
down  to  Maddoxtown  Mills,  where  it  forded  the  River  Nore  at 
Mr.  Colles's  Marble  Works,  and  thence  ran  direct  to  the  castle  of 
"  Highrath,"  from  which  it  now  leads  us  over  the  Irish  South- 
Eastern  Railway,  "at  which  point  it  runs  into  the  high  road  to 
Dublin1  about  two  and  a  quarter  miles  east  of  Kilkenny.  Most 


1  The  high-road  to  Dublin. — The  pre- 
sent Dublin  road  is  not,  as  is  generally 
supposed,  a  new  road  ,•  an  ancient  path- 
way nearly  identical  with  the  present  line 
ran  from  the  ford  over  the  River  Barrow, 
at  Leighlinbridge,  by  Shankill  Church 
(where  its  course  through  that  demesne 
is  still  called  the  "coach  road")  through 
the  village  of  Garryduff  to  Highrath 
Castle,  and  thence  over  the  Nore  to 
Outrath,  as  stated  above.  When  the 
course  of  this  read  over  the  Nore  was 
interrupted  by  the  construction  of  the 
mill  weir  at  Maddoxtown,  its  conti- 
nuation by  Highrath  Castle  became 
useless,  save  as  a  private  approach  to 
that  ancient  mansion  place.  About  this 
period,  which  appears  to  have  been  co- 
eval with  the  first  establishment  of  a 
mill  at  Maddoxtown,  the  portion  of  this 
road  from  the  railway  crossing  at  High- 
rath  down  by  Aughmalogue,  must  have 
been  opened  as  an  approach  by  which 
the  ancient  road  from  Leinster  was  now, 
for  the  first  time,  conducted  into  the 
city  of  Kilkenny,  as  will  be  obvious  from 
an  inspection  of  the  Townland  Survey 
Sheet  19,  and  on  which  the  direct  course 
of  this  road  is  distinctly  traceable  by 
Highrath  Castle  to  Maddoxtown  mill 
weir,  and  thence  through  the  townland 
of  Warrington  to  Outrath.  It  is  also  to 
be  observed  that  this  road  from  Highrath 
to  the  village  of  Garryduff  forms  nearly 
the  whole  way  the  common  boundary  of 
the  townlands  at  each  side,  from  which 


it  is  to  be  inferred  that  the  road  ran  here 
before  the  townlands  were  formed  ;  but 
from  Highrath  to  Kilkenny  this  road 
intersects  the  townlands  and  fields  ;  the 
configuration  of  the  latter  remain  at 
each  side  just  as  before  this  road  was 
cut  through  them.  Fortunately  we  are 
enabled  to  determine  the  precise  date  of 
the  opening  of  this  highway  in  its  pre- 
sent form.  In  the  year  1731,  an  Act 
was  passed  in  the  Irish  Parliament,  en- 
titled "An  ACT  for  Repairing  the 
ROAD  leading  from  the  Town  of  Kil- 
cullen,  in  the  County  of  Kildare,  to  the 
City  of  Kilkenny."— Vide  5  George  II., 
c.  18.  The  preamble  of  the  Act  sets 
forth:  "  Whereas,  the  High- Way,  or 
Road  leading  from  the  Town  of  Kilcullen 
in  the  County  of  Kildare,  through  the 
Towns  of  Castledermoit,  Catherlough, 
Laughlin-Bridge,  and  from  thence  to 
the  City  of  Kilkenny,  by  reason  of  the 
several  Hollow  Ways,  and  of  the  many 
and  Heavy  Carriages  frequently  pass- 
ing through  the  same,  are  become  so 
Ruinous  and  Bad,  That  in  Winter  season 
Many  Parts  thereof  are  Impassable  for 
Waggons,  Carts,  Carrs,  and  Carriages, 
and  Very  Dangerous  for  Travellers,  and 
cannot  by  the  Ordinary  Course  ap- 
pointed by  the  Laws  and  Statutes  of 
this  Realm,  be  effectually  Mended  and 
Kept  in  Good  Repair."  The  Act  next 
proceeds  to  state,  in  the  usual  extrava- 
gance of  legal  verbosity,  "  That  for 
the  better  Surveying,  Ordering,  Amend- 
R 


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adult  citizens  are  acquainted  with  the  local  peculiarity  of  the  railway 
"  crossing"  at  Highrath ;  an  inspection  of  the  locality,  or  a  glance  at 
the  Townland  Survey  (sheet  20),  will  satisfy  an  observer  that  the 


ing,  and  Keeping  in  Repair  the  said 
liigh-Way  or  Road,"  one  hundred  and 
ninety  Peers  and  Gentlemen  "  are  here- 
by Nominated  and  Appointed  Trustees 
of  the  said  Roads,  and  the  Survivors  of 
them  (i.  e.  of  the  Trustees).  That  they, 
or  any  Five  or  more  of  them,  or  such 
person  or  persons  as  they,  or  any  five 
or  more  of  them,  shall  Authorise  and 
Appoint,  shall  and  may  Erect,  or  Cause 
to  be  Erected,  One  or  More  Gate  or 
Gates,  Turn-Pike  or  Turn-Pikes,  in, 
upon,  or  across  any  Part  or  Parts  of 
the  said  High-ways  or  Roads,  and  also 
a  Toll-House  or  Toll-Houses,  and  there 
shall  Receive  and  Take  the  Tolls  and  Du- 
ties following,  before  any  Horse,  Mare, 
or  Gelding,  Ass  or  Mule,  Cattle,  Coach, 
Berlin  Chariot,  Calash,  Chaise,  Chair, 
Waggon,  Wain-Cart,  Carr  or  other  Car- 
riage, shall  be  permitted  to  pass  through 
the  same."  As  this  Act  formed  the 
Charter  upon  which  the  Turnpike  sys- 
tem was  first  introduced  into  the  county 
of  Kilkenny,  and  as  the  system  is  now 
completely  superseded  by  the  Grand 
Jury  presentment  system,  the  "  bill  of 
fare"  prescribed  by  the  Act  may  be 
worthy  of  publication,  viz:  — 

"  For  every  Coach,  Berlin,  Chariot, 
Calash,  Chaise,  or  Chair  drawn  by  Six 
Horses  or  More,  the  sum  of  One  Shil- 
ling. And  for  every  Coach,  Berlin,  &c., 
drawn  by  any  less  Number  of  Horses 
than  Six,  and  more  than  Two,  the  Sum 
of  Eiijht  Pence.  And  for  every  Coach, 
Berlin,  &c.,  drawn  by  Two  Horses  only, 
the  Sum  of  Six  Pence.  And  for  every 
Chaise  or  Chair  drawn  by  one  Horse, 
the  Sum  of  Three  Pence.  For  every  Wag- 
gon, Wain-Cart,  Carr  or  other  Car- 
riage with  four  Wheels,  the  Sum  of 
Eight  Pence.  For  every  Wain-Cart, 
Carr  or  other  Carriage  with  Two 
Wheels  having  more  than  One  Horse, 
Mare,  or  Gelding,  Ass  or  Mule,  whereon 
One  or  More  Persons  shall  Ride,  One 
Penny.  For  every  Horse,  Mare,  Gelding, 
Ass,  or  Mule,  Laden  or  Un- Laden,  and 
not  Drawing  nor  having  any  Person 
Riding  thereon,  One  Half- Penny.  For 
e?ery  Drove  of  Oxen  or  Neat  Cattle,  the 
Sum  of  Ten  Pence  per  Score,  and  so 
on  in  proportion  for  any  Greater  or  Les- 
ser Number.  For  every  Drove  of  Calves, 
Hoggs,  Sheep,  Lambs,  the  Sum  of  Five 


Pence  per  Score,  and  so  on  in  propor- 
tion for  any  Greater  or  Lesser  Number, 
which  said  respective  Sum  and  Sums  of 
Money  shall  be  Demanded  and  Taken 
in  the  Name  of,  or  as  a  Toll  or  Duty," 
&c.,  &c. 

This  Act  was  passed  in  the  year  1731, 
and  the  object  of  it  was  immediately  en- 
trusted for  execution  to  William  Colles, 
great  grandfather  to  the  present  A. 
Colles,  Esq.,  of  Millmount.  The  works 
must  have  been  carried  on  with  spirit, 
for  the  Dublin  road  appears  to  have 
been  at  least  fit  for  travelling  by  the 
year  1737,  as  would  appear  from  the 
following  extract  of  an  advertisement 
in  an  old  Dublin  newspaper  named 
"  Pue's  Occurrences,"  No.  8,  January 
1737-8: — "  John  Walsh,  who  keeps  the 
Kilkenny  Stage  Coach  gives  notice  that 
he  will  set  out  from  Dublin  and  Kil- 
kenny precisely  at  7  O'C.  in  the  morn- 
ing, on  every  Monday  and  Thursday 
during  the  Summer,  and  run  through  in 
two  days  (accidents  excepted).  Twenty 
pound  weight  of  luggage  will  be  al- 
lowed to  every  person,  and  one  penny 
per  pound  to  be  paid  for  all  weight 
over."  (See  this  advertisement  in  full, 
"  Transactions,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  134,  new 
series).  The  adventures  and  perils  of  a 
journey  to  Dublin  about  this  period  were 
vividly  preserved,  in  local  traditions 
and  suburban  gossiping  down  to  the 
middle  of  the  present  century.  There 
are  persons  still  living  who  tell  you  that 
they  remember  the  time  when,  before  a 
man  ventured  on  his  journey  to  the  me- 
tropolis, amongst  other  preliminaries, 
he  made  his  will  and  closed  his  establish- 
ment, affixing  the  following  advertise- 
ment to  the  exterior  of  his  shop  door  : 
"  Gone  to  Dublin  to  buy  Goods."  John 
Walshe's  stage  coach  mentioned  in  the 
advertisement  appears  to  have  been 
identical  with  that  denominated  the 
"Fly  Dilligence"  which  started  from 
the  sign  of  the  «•  Cross  Keys,"  in  the 
high  street  of  Kilkenny,  and  was  a 
vehicle  of  some  celebrity,  being  the 
only  manner  of  conveyance  between 
Dublin  and  Kilkenny  during  the  latter 
half  of  the  past  century.  The  following 
extracts  from  the  pen  of  John  Banim 
furnish  a  few  interesting  pictures  of 
the  machinery  of  the  Diligence,  as 


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present  high  road  from  that  point  by  Lyrath  and  Aughmalogue  into 
Kilkenny  is  a  comparatively  modern  construction,  and  that  the 
great  public  road  from  Garryduff  by  Freestone-hill,  and  the  chapel 


well  as  of  the  times  in  which  it  moved: — 
"  In  those  days  it  was  thought  no  waste 
of  time,  or  want  of  energy  in  passengers, 
proprietors,  horses,  or  a  carriage  ma- 
chinery if  the  ponderous  Diligence  ac- 
complished a  Journey  of  Sixty  Irish 
Miles  to  or  from  the  Metropolis  in  forty 
hours  after  its  sedate  departure  from 
the  starting  point.  In  those  good  old 
times  weeks  were  allotted  to  due  pre- 
paration for  such  a  journey  even  by  the 
Diligence,  apprehending  a  lack  of  ac- 
commodation in  houses  of  entertainment 
upon  the  road,  perhaps  a  lack  of  houses 
of  entertainment  themselves,  the  pru- 
dent man  victuelled  his  capacious  sad- 
dlebags with  a  week's  provisions  at 
least,  paid  his  debts,  made  his  will,  par- 
took of  religious  comforts,  and  in  various 
other  ways  nerved  his  manly  mind  for 
his  perilous  adventure.  Days  before  his 
departure  a  tender  gloom  shaded  his 
domestic  circle.  Upon  the  doomed  morn- 
ing itself  not  only  all  the  members  of 
the  family,  but  a  crowd  of  friends  be- 
sides, escorted  him  to  the  side  of  the 
awful  machine,  and  there,  tearful  and 
boding  embraces  were  interchanged." 
The  scene  on  the  return  of  the  Diligence 
from  Dublin  is  thus  graphically  sketched: 
"  In  the  reign  of  George  the  Second  (the 
period  of  Walsh's  Stage  Coach),  upon 
a  hill  outside  the  town  (i.  e.  Fennel's 
hill,  now  'Altamount),  many  persons 
were  assembled  as  usual,  hoping  to  catch 
along  the  distant  road  a  sight  of  what 
was  called  by  excellence  the  Fly  Dili- 
gence. It  was  late  on  a  winter's  even- 
ing, but  sufficient  light  still  remained 
for  the  purpose.  They  had  been  assem- 
bled since  before  three  o'clock,  and  had 
now  strained  their  eyes  abroad  more 
than  an  hour,  but  without  a  promise  of 
the  expected  object."  The  group  now 
descend  the  hill  and  return  to  the  city  in 
despair,  and  it  was  not  till  the  following 
evening  that  the  Diligence  arrived  in 
town ;  its  entrance  and  movements 
through  the  streets  are  thus  depicted:  "At 
length,  however,  appeared  an  avaunt- 
couriere  in  the  person  of  the  town  fool, 
a  half-clad  poor  creature  who  had  been 
born  silly,  and  he  running  and  jumping 
towards  the  '  Cross  Keys,'  and  flourish- 
ing a  stick  over  his  head,  kept  crying 
out  '  we  have  her  at  home  at  last !  here 


she  is  !  our  own  darling  Dilly!'  Presently 
round  the  abrupt  turn  in  the  street  (the 
corner  of  the  Parade),  some  score  mon- 
grels came  in  view,  and  while  their 
barking  grew  shriller,  what  had  be- 
fore been  a  dismal  rumble  now  changed 
into  a  stunning,  crashing  noise,  and 
finally,  the  windows  dancing,  and  the 
very  foundations  of  the  houses  of  the 
street  quailing  as  it  passed  the  pon- 
derous Fly  Diligence  filled  the  eyes  of 
the  admirers.  Two  of  the  helpers,  who 
formed  part  of  the  company  on  the  hill, 
trotted  on  bareheaded  before  the  horses. 
Ropes  of  hemp  or  hay,  indifferently,  with 
a  small  remnant  of  leathern  harness, 
attached  them  to  each  other,  and  to  the 
ark-like  building ;  they  barely  moved 
along,  their  jaded  and  nerveless  trot 
could  not  be  rated  at  more  than  three 
or  four  miles  an  hour.  The  supreme 
driver,  who  was  enthroned  in  the  huge 
box-seat,  told  how  much  he  was  satisfied 
with  the  unusual  spirit  of  this  approach 
to  the  Cross  Keys  by  many  a  lash  at 
the  poor  beasts  ;  but  every  human  thing 
must  have  an  end,  and  the  Fly  Diligence 
at  length  stopped  at  the  door  of  the 
Cross  Keys,  amid  the  renewed  cheers 
and  barkings  of  the  brats  and  curs,  and 
the  unlimited  ecstacies  of  the  town  fool. 
The  expectant  towns-people  gathered 
round,  vociferously  demanding  to  know 
if  their  friends  were  inside,  or  else  un- 
der the  awning  on  the  top  made  of  sacks 
spread  over  hoops.  On  the  highly  or- 
namented side  of  the  Diligence  were 
depicted  the  Cross  Keys  to  life,  and 
under  them  the  names  of  the  public 
vehicle  and  its  proprietors,  together 
with  '  Latin  itself,'  in  yellow  letters 
on  a  waving  blue  ribbon,  to  this  effect : 
'  Paratus  ad  Arma.'"  In  juxta-position 
with  the  Fly  Diligence  and  its  times, 
the  writer  thus  draws  this  complimen- 
tary sketch  of  the  superior  travelling 
conveniences  of  his  own  days  (1825): 
"  Old  Irish  people  of  the  present  day, 
while  tottering,  supported  by  their 
sticks,  along  the  suburban  roads  of  their 
native  towns,  may  be-seen  to  hurry  up  a 
convenient  green  lane,  or,  if  that  is  not 
at  hand,  place  their  shoulders  against 
the  hedge  or  wall  of  the  highway,  in 
order  to  allow  deferential  scope  to  the 
career  of  the  stage  or  mail  coach  heard 


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of  Pit,  formerly  did  not  enter  Kilkenny,  but  ran  direct  to  Highrath 
Castle,  thence  descended  to  Maddoxtown,  forded  the  river,1  and  by 
the  line  already  indicated  ran  on  to  Outrath,  thence  by  Inchiholo- 
ghan,  Dama,  Goldenfield,  Ballinamara,  and  Tubbridbritan,  into 
Munster.  A  doubt  can  scarcely  be  entertained  that  this  was  the 
line  of  route  by  which  Muircheartach  Mac  Neil  and  his  retainers 
travelled  from  Bealach  Gabhran  to  Tubbridbritain  in  the  year  942.2 
But  to  return  to  the  event  which  led  us  into  this  digression.  Ech- 
thighcrn,  by  whom  the  defeat  was  given  to  the  Osraigh  at  Uach- 
taraghy  in  the  year  846,  was  lord  of  the  petty  municipality  in 
Leinster,  then  denominated  Laighin  deas  Gabhair,  and  which  was 
identical  with  the  level  tract  of  land  situated  between  the  present 


afar  off,  but  suspected  to  be  close  at 
their  backs,  in  consequence  of  confused 
misgivings  respecting  the  state  of  their 
own  sense  of  hearing.  In  such  situa- 
tions as  the  latter  we  have  observed 
many  an  ancient  friend,  and  while  the 
stage  whisked  by  them  at  the  rate  of  nine 
English  miles  an  hour  (making  no  more 
ado  of  four  insides  and  twelve  outsides 
than  if  the  horses  were  blasts  of  whirl- 
wind, and  itself  and  its  tenants  light 
clouds  involved  in  the  motion).  We 
fancied  that  in  the  upturned  eyes,  and 
dropped  jaws  of  the  old  gentlemen, 
might  be  perceived — mastering  even 
their  terror  of  being  run  over  and 
ground  into  dust— an  expression  of  awful 
amazement,  as  if  the  impetuous  vehicle 
were  some  supernatural  wonder,  boding 
evil  to  mortals  in  its  transit  over  the  pub- 
lic roads  of  this  earth."  Had  life  been 
spared  our  townsman,  he,  too,  in  his 
turn,  would  be  absorbed  in  amazement 
to  behold  his  *'  blasts  of  whirlwind" 
superseded  by  the  locomotives  of  our 
day.  These  extracts  are  taken  from 
"  The  Conformists,"  a  beautiful  local 
narrative  by  the  authors  of  "  Tales  by 
the  O'Hara  Family."  The  book  is  now 
out  of  print,  that  from  which  I  quote  be- 
ing Colburn  and  Bentley's  ed.,  London, 
1830,  vol.ii.,  p.  191,  et.  seq.  This  paper 
was  originally  written  three  years  ago, 
since  which  a  new  edition  of  this  work 
has  been  issued. 

1  Forded  the  River.  — The  fording  of 
the  Nore  at  Maddoxtown  by  this  an- 
cient roadway  mnst  have  been  discon- 
tinued since  the  period  of  the  construc- 
tion of  the  mill  weir.  Mr.  Colles  tells 
me  that  he  has  authority  for  stating 
that  both  the  mill  and  the  weir  of  Mad- 
doxtown were  first  erected  by  his  great 
grandfather,  William  Colles;  and  if  this 


were  so,  it  would  appear  that  the  old 
road  from  Highrath  to  Outrath  was 
intercepted  at  the  same  time  that  the 
present  Dublin  road  was  being  opened, 
which  would  be  but  about  one  hundred 
and  thirty  years ;  but  from  the  appear- 
ance of  the  place  it  is  certain  that 
this  roadway  is  much  longer  out  of 
use,  and  this  conclusion  is  fully  sus- 
tained by  a  Patent  Roll  (No.  2),  5  &  6  of 
Philip  and  Mary,  1557-8,  which  grants 
to  Thomas  Earl  of  Ormond  and  Ossory, 
amongst  other  possessions,  "  a  Water 
Mill  in  Madduckeston."  From  whatever 
period  this  water  mill  was  erected,  the 
road  over  the  river  must  have  been  in- 
terrupted, as  the  construction  of  the  Mill 
Weir  so  dammed  back  the  water  as  to 
render  a  ford  impracticable.  It  is  to 
be  observed  here,  that  the  lane  on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  river,  well  known  as 
the  "  Warrington  Bosheen,"  is  no  part 
of  the  old  road  from  Highrath,  but  must 
have  been  opened  as  an  approach  to  th& 
river  from,  the  Boherathoundish  road, 
when  that  from  Maddoxtown  to  Outrath 
had  been  closed  up.  The  word  Maddox- 
town appears  to  be  derived  from  Bailli- 
Modhomnoc,  i.  e.  the  town  of  Modhom- 
noc,  or  Madomogue.  This  Madhomnoc 
was  most  probably  the  patron  saint  of 
the  old  church  of  Blackrath,  the  ruins 
and  burial-ground  of  which  are  still  to 
be  seen  on  the  side  of  the  road  as  you 
turn  down  to  Maddoxtown  Mill  j  but  as 
we  shall  have  a  special  essay  on  the 
"Patron  days"  and  "  Holy  Wells"  of 
Ossory,  we  shall  reserve  our  illustra- 
tions of  Maddoxtown  and  its  church 
till  then. 

2  Circuit  of  Muircheartach  MacNeill. — 
See  this  excursion  of  Muircheartach 
already  referred  to,  "  Transactions*" 
vol.  v.,  new  series,  p.  201,  n.  1. 


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parish  of  Gowran  and  the  River  Barrow ;  and  if  he  and  hisLagenian 
tribesmen  in  their  raid  into  Ossory  adopted  the  line  of  march  in- 
dicated by  the  old  road  just  illustrated,  it  would  conduct  them 
both  to  Highrath,  and  "  Ought,"  or  Upper  "  Rath,"  of  which  the 
latter  appears  to  have  derived  its  present  titles  from  Oughteraghy, 
where,  on  that  occasion,  he  slew  the  people  of  Osraigh.  We  are  not 
informed  in  the  Annals  whether  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal  was  present 
at  this  engagement ;  the  probability  is  that  he  was  not,  and  that  the 
defeat  of  his  men  was  the  result  of  his  own  absence ;  however,  he 
bided  his  time  for  five  years  later.  When  we  are  next  introduced 
to  him  in  the  Annals,  we  read,  "  A.  D.  851,  Eachtighern,  son  of 
Guaire,  lord  of  Laighin  dear  Gabhair,  was  treacherously  slain  by 
Cearbhall,  son  of  Dunghal."  The  name  "  Eachtighern"  would  be 
now  Anglicised  Egern  and  Egan. 

In  the  year  856,  "  a  victory  was  gained  by  Cearbhall,  lord  of 
Osraigh,  and  by  Imhar,  in  the  territory  of  Aradh-tire  over  the 
Cinel-Fiachach  with  the  Gall-Gaeidhill  (Dano-Irish),  of  Leith 
Chuinn ;  four  hundred  above  six  thousand  was  the  number  that 
came  with  Cearbhall  and  Imhar."  Aradh-tire  is  now  the  barony 
of  Arra,  or  Duarra,  in  the  north-west  of  the  county  of  Tipperary. 
The  extract  is  important,  as  it  gives  us  an  idea  of  the  strength  and 
numbers  of  the  Ossorian  army  at  that  period.  The  united  forces 
of  Cearbhall  and  Imhar  consisted  of  six  thousand  four  hundred 
men,  Imhar,  who  was  ancestor  of  the  Danish  kings  of  Dublin,  acts 
in  concert  with  Cearbhall,  which  at  first  sight  appears  a  rather 
anomalous  association,  but  at  this  period  great  fleets  of  Norsemen 
entered  the  estuaries  on  the  coasts  of  the  island,  and  following  the 
courses  of  the  rivers  which,  to  those  seafaring  barbarians,  served 
as  so  many  inroads  to  the  interior  of  the  country,  harassed  indis- 
criminately both  native  and  Danish  inhabitants,  in  consequence  of 
which  many  of  the  Irish  chieftains  accepted  the  services  of  the 
Danish  leaders  with  their  retainers ;  and  this  explains  why  Imhar, 
himself  a  Dane,  will  be  subsequently  found  the  friend  and  the  ally 
of  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal. 

The  social  happiness  and  political  freedom  consequent  on  the 
emancipation  of  the  people  from  the  servitude  of  the  Danes  was 
but  of  short  duration.  The  internecine  strife  and  mutual  jealousies 
of  the  native  princes  not  only  obstructed  the  progress  of  civiliza- 
tion, but  left  the  country  open  and  defenceless  to  the  swarms  of 
Danes  and  Norsemen,  who  now  effecting  settlements  in  the  sea- 
coast  towns,  gradually  improved  their  condition,  until  they  became 
so  formidable  as  to  harass  and  oppress  the  natives,  and  again  to 
aim  at  the  subjugation  of  the  entire  kingdom.  Maelseachlainn,  or 
Malachy,  who  was  just  now  raised  to  the  monarchy  of  the  nation, 
attempted  to  remedy  the  public  grievances  of  the  time  by  an  effort 
to  reconcile  the  conflicting  elements  of  native  strength ;  and  for 


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that  purpose  convened  a  great  meeting  of  the  kings,  chieftains,  and 
men  of  note  throughout  the  island,  with  the  object,  say  the  An- 
nalists,  "  of  establishing  peace  and  concord  between  the  men  of 
Ireland."  This  meeting  was  summoned  to  a  place  then  called 
"  Rath-Aedha-mic-Brie,"  Now  Rathhugh,  in  the  barony  of  Moy- 
cashel,  county  of  Westmeath.  To  this  convention  came  "Feth- 
ghna  Comorbhan  of  Patrick,1  illustrious  for  the  austerity  of  his 
morals  and  the  holiness  of  his  life :  here  also  came  "  Suairleach, 
Comorbhan  of  Finnian,"  i.  e.  abbot  or  superior  of  the  monastery 
of  Clonard.  These  are  the  only  two  ecclesiastics  named  as  attend- 
ing the  meeting,  though  there  can  scarcely  be  a  doubt  that  many 
others  assisted,  by  their  presence  and  counsel,  the  important  object 
for  which  it  was  convened ;  but  the  most  prominent  character  named 
in  connexion  with  this  august  assemblage  is  that  of  "  Cearbhall, 
lord  of  Osraigh ;"  he  is  said  to  have  entered  Meath  at  the  head 
of  a  great  army,  and  here  again  he  acts  in  concert  with  Amhlaeibh 
and  Imar,  two  Danish  nobles.  Cearbhall  remained  "  for  forty 
nights  at  Ereros,"  now  Orris,  in  Westmeath,  during  which  period 
he  was  occupied  in  plundering  Meath,  in  which  he  was  assisted  for 
the  first  day  by  the  son  of  the  king  of  Lochlann  (now  Killarney). 
This  plundering  of  Meath  by  Cearbhall  is  the  most  embarrassing 
point  in  his  biography.  Meath  was  the  territory  of  Malachy,  the 
monarch  of  the  nation,  and  the  brother-in-law  of  Cearbhall  himself. 
The  following  account  of  that  event  is  taken  from  Ussher's  trea- 
tise on  the  "  First  Institution  of  Corbes  :"— "  O' Carroll,  king  of 
Ossory,  assisted  with  other  kings,  brought  his  army  into  the  field 
against  the  king  of  Taraughe ;  but  Imfeathna,  Patrick's  Corbe, 
and  Insuarlech  Finne,  his  Corbe,  interposing  themselves,  O'Carroll 
was  persuaded  to  yield  to  St.  Patrick  and  his  Corbe."  The  succes- 
sors of  Patrick  and  Finnian  appear  to  have  attached  much  import- 
ance to  the  submission  of  Cearbhall ;  for,  after  he  had  yielded  to  their 
persuasions,  the  "Annalists"  write—"  Cearbhall,  lord  of  Osraighe, 

fave  the  award  of  the  Coniorbhans  of  Patrick  and  Finnia  to  the 
ing  of  Ireland;"  after  which  it  was  decided  "that  the  king  of 
Osraighe  should  be  in  league  with  Leath  Chuinn,"  i.  e.  should 
act  harmoniously  with  the  Hy  Nials  of  Ulster,  and  then  "  Maelg- 
ualai,  king  of  Munster,  came  in  and  tendered  his  allegiance." 
So  that  now  a  conciliation  was  effected  between  the  kings  of  Mun- 
ster,  Ulster,  Ossory,  and  Meath ;  and  this  result  being  achieved, 

1  Comorbhan  of  Patrick.— According  tinguished  Bishop,  but  it  is  highly  im- 

to    the   Catalogue    of  the    Psalter    of  probable  that  the  title  of  Archbishop 

Cashel,  quoted  by  Lanigan,  vol.  Hi.,  pp.  was    in    his   time    known    in    Ireland. 

277-280,    Fethna   was    Archbishop    of  Ussher  asserts  that  this  Fethna  is  the 

Armagh,    and   succeeded  one   Dermot  first  ecclesiastical   person  bearing  the 

in  the  year  852.     He  was  the  ecclesias-  title  of  Comharba  to  be  met  with  in  the 

tical  superior   of  Armagh,  and  a  dis-  Irish  Annals. 


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the  meeting  was  dissolved,  and  the  chiefs  and  nobles  returned  to 
their  respective  territories.  The  foreigners,  however,  do  not  ap- 
pear to  have  been  daunted  by  this  combination  of  the  kings,  for 
the  same  year,  and  immediately  after  the  close  of  the  meeting,  the 
Annalists  record  "  Maelgualai,  king  of  Munster,  was  stoned  by 
the  Norsemen  until  they  killed  him." 

In  the  year  858,  the  next  after  the  great  convention  in  West- 
meath,  Malachy  summoned  a  hosting  of  the  men  of  Leinster, 
Munster,  and  Connaught,  and  of  the  southern  Ui-Niell  (the  clans 
of  Meath),  into  the  north,  and  pitched  his  camp  at  Magh-Dumha, 
in  the  neighbourhood  of  Armagh ;  during  this  northern  campaign 
Cearbhall  remains  at  home  the  vigilant  guardian  of  his  own  people. 
Port  Lairge,  or  Waterford,  was  then  and  subsequently  one  of  the 
greatest  strongholds  of  the  Danes  on  the  eastern  coast  of  Ireland ; 
and  from  their  fleet  then  sailing  in  that  harbour,  they  constantly 
harassed  the  interior  of  Osraigh.  The  great  southern  pass  way  from 
the  valley  of  the  Suir  to  that  of  the  Nore  was  then,  as  now, 
through  the  valley  or  gap  in  the  Walsh  Mountains,  then  known  as 
Bealach-Ele,  and  somewhere  in  this  pass  "  a  victory  was  gained  by 
Cearbhall  over  the  fleet  of  Port-Lairge  at  Achadh-mic-Erclaighe." 
In  this  word  Erclaighe  the  "  c"  and  "  gh"  are  aspirated,  leaving 
the  Anglicised  pronunciation  Earley,  or  Erlea;  the  word  "  Ach- 
adh,"  like  "  Garradh,"  implies  the  cultivated  land  or  tillage  fields 
which  surrounded  the  chieftain's  mansion ;  hence  Achadh-mic-Er- 
claighe would  be  properly  translated  the  field  of  the  son  of  Early, 
or  Earley's  Field.  In  a  Patent  Roll,  19  Char.  II.,  a  well-known 
townland  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Mullinavatt  is  denominated 
"  Earle's-Rath,"  and  in  a  subsequent  Roll,  "  Earlesrath;"  and 
Mr.  John  Carroll,1  the  present  proprietor  of  this  locality,  informs 
me  that  the  Irish  form  of  Earlsrath  is  "  Ra-an-Earclaighe"  which 
enables  us  to  identify  it  as  the  scene  of  the  conflict  between  the 
crews  of  the  Danish  fleet  and  the  tribesmen  of  Osraigh.  The  victory 
here  gained  by  Cearbhall  over  the  foreigners  appears  to  have  been 
both  decisive  and  significant ;  for  in  the  next  year,  viz.,  859,  we  find 
the  following  event  recorded  in  the  Annals: — "The  renewal  of 
the  fair  of  Roighna  by  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal."  Roighna,  or 
Kaighne,  was  the  original  name  of  southern  Ossory,  hence  the 
"  fair"  of  that  name  must  have  been  an  institution  of  very  remote 
times ;  it  was  a  public  anniversary  similar  in  its  constitution  to  the 
fairs  ofTailteen,  in  Meath,  and  Carman,  in  Leinster,  which  in- 
cluded athletic  exercises,  equestrian  sports,  and  other  popular 

1  It  cannot  fail  to  interest  Mr.  John  own  land  his  great  ancestor,  the  head 

Carroll  to  be  thus  enabled  to  identify  of  the  O'Carrolls   of  Ossory,   so  nobly 

the  locality  of  Earlsrath,  as  the  scene  vindicated  the  valour  of  his  race  over 

of  this  victory;  indeed  it  is  a  singularly  the  invaders  of  his  country, 
interesting  circumstance  that,    on    his 


amusements.  By  the  renewal  of  this  fair  in  Osraigh  is  implied 
the  re-establishing  of  the  public  institutions  of  the  kingdom,  which 
most  probably  had  been  interrupted  and  suspended  since  the 
foreigners  had  ravaged  this  territory  and  burned  its  churches  dur- 
intr  the  lifetime  of  Dunghal,  the  father  of  the  present  king  ;  hence 
the  restoration  of  those  games  must  have  been  an  important  and 
auspicious  event  in  the  reign  of  Cearbhall  Mac^Dunghal,  as  it  im- 
plies the  restoration  of  social  security  in  his  dominions.  Two  years 
after  the  re-opening  of  the  fair  of  Roighna,  we  are  again  introduced 
to  Cearbhall  in  the  north-western  extreme  of  our  present  county 
engaged  in  deadly  conflict  with  the  invaders;  at  the  year  861  we 
find  the  concise  but  comprehensive  entry  in  the  Annals : — "  The 
killing  of  the  foreigners  at  Fearta-na-gCaireach1  by  Cearbhall,  so 
that  forty  heads  were  left  to  him,  and  that  he  banished  them  from 
the  territory."  The  round  tower  of  Feartagh,  in  the  barony  of 
Galmoy,  marks  the  site  of  this  triumph  of  native  prowess.  From 
the  Danish  occupation  of  this  territory  would  appear  to  be  derived 
the  name  of  the  present  barony.  The  word  Galmoy  is  a  com- 
pound of  "  Gall,"  a  foreigner,  and  "  Magh"  (pronounced  Moy),  a 
plain ;  hence  Galmoy  implies  the  plain  of  the  foreigners ;  and  the  old 
church  of  Glashare,  situated  in  this  plain,  is  locally  denominated 
"  Tempul-na-Gall,"  i.  e.  the  church  of  the  foreigners.  In  the 
year  862  Cearbhall  makes  a  raid  through  Leinster,  which  was  re- 
taliated by  the  Leinstermen  on  the  Osraigh  within  the  next  fort- 
night. The  same  year  he  plundered  Munster  till  he  reached  Fer- 
moy ;  he  then  proceeded  further  south,  and  harassed  the  country 
of  Ui  Aenghusa,  i.  e.  the  descendants  of  Aenghus  Mac  Nadh- 
frach,  who  expelled  the  Ossorians  out  of  Feimhin  in  the  fifth 
century. 

In  the  year  860,  on  Tuesday,  the  13th  November,  Maelseach- 
lan,  or  Malachy,  died  after  he  had  been  sixteen  years  in  the  sove- 
reignty of  Ireland ;  he  was  succeeded  by  Aedh  Finnliath  (which 
would  be  translated  Hugh  Fennelly),  son  to  Nial  Caille,  who 
had  been  drowned  in  the  Callan  river  in  the  year  844.  The  new 

1  Fearta-na-gCaireach.—  i.  e.    The  priory   of  Fertnegeragh,   amounting  to 

grave  or  burial-place  of  the  sheep.    We  the  yearly  value  of  £12  13s.  4d.,"  were 

find    many   interesting    references    to  by  letters  patent  passed  to  James  But- 

the  ancient  ecclesiastical  establishment  ler,    brother  to   the   Earl  of  Ormonde, 

founded    at   Fearta    by   St.   Kyran   of  It  will  be  observed  that  Robert  Shortal 

Saighar.respecting  which,  see  Archdall,  was  prior  of  the  house  at  the  time  of  its 

at  Kilkenny.    On  the  suppression  of  this  suppression.     The  Shortals  supplanted 

house  in  1540-44,  Robert  Shortal  was  the  O'Gafneys    and  the   O'Brophys  in 

mf'XP  by  a  Patent  Ro11'  31st  Henry  that  country  shortly  after  the  Anglo- 

Vlll.  (No.  8),  a  "pension  of  5  marks"  Norman  invasion,   and  remained  in  pos- 

was  reserved  to  him  out  of  the  posses-  session  till  they  were  themselves  sup- 

oTVpr  °u dl8l8olved  Prioi7>  but  in  the  planted  by  the  Cromwellian  settlers  in 

atn  of  Elizabeth  (No.  51),   "  the  rever-  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
sum  and  rents  of  the  late  monastery,  or 


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monarch  appears  to  have  early  engaged  the  services  of  Cearbhall 
Mac  Dunghal.  In  the  year  868  they  are  introduced  to  our  notice, 
acting  together  in  a  plundering  expedition  through  Leinster. 
The  following  is  the  account  of  this  event  from  the  "  Annals  of 
the  Four  Masters,"  A.D.  868: — "  The  plundering  of  Leinster  by 
Aedh  Finnliath  from  Ath-Cliath  to  Gabhran.  Cearbhall,  son  of 
Dunghal,  plundered  it  on  the  other  side,  as  far  as  Dunbolg.  The 
Leinstermen  attacked  [Dun-Cearbhaill]  the  fort  of  Cearbhall,  and 
the  son  ofGaithin,  and  many  men  were  slain  by  them.  When 
the  people  of  [Longphort]  the  fort  had  perceived  this,  they  fought 
bravely  against  them,  so  that  they  compelled  them,  with  their 
chief,  Brann,  son  of  Muireadhach,  to  return  back,  after  numbers  of 
their  people  had  been  slain."  The  construction  of  this  passage  is 
somewhat  complicated  and  the  sense  obscure.  The  context  will 
read  thus.  Hugh  Finnliath,  King  of  Ireland,  laid  waste  the  terri- 
tory of  Leinster  from  Gabhran  (Gowran),  the  King  of  Osraigh's 
territory,  to  Ath-cliath  (Dublin),  the  then  stronghold  of  the  Norse- 
men. Whilst  simultaneously  Cearbhall,  King  of  Osraigh,  made  a 
raid  "  on  the  other  side  " ;  that  is,  as  I  understand  it,  on  the  east 
side  of  Mount  Leinster,  when  he  plundered  up  the  valley  of  the 
Slaney  as  far  as  the  place  then  called  Dunbolg,  near  Dunlavin,  in 
the  county  of  Wicklow.  The  Leinstermen,  provoked  by  this  en- 
croachment of  Cearbhall,  organised  a  force,  and  meditated  a  raid 
into  his  kingdom  under  the  leadership  of  Brann,  son  to  the  then 
King  of  Leinster,  and  availing  themselves  of  the  facility  for  their 
project,  afforded  by  the  absence  of  Cearbhall,  set  out  on  an  excur- 
sion into  Osraigh.  On  their  way  they  "  spoiled"  the  mansion  place 
of  Mac  Gaithin,  who  was  then  Lord  of  Laeighis  or  Leix,  in  the 
now  Queen's  County ;  thence  proceeding  further  south  they  at- 
tacked Dun-Cearbhaill,  and  slew  some  of  the  garrison  in  the  surprise 
of  the  attack;  but  the  "people  of  the  Longphort,"  having  "per- 
ceived" the  assault  on  the  king's  mansion,  hastened  to  the  as- 
assistance  of  the  failing  garrison,  bravely  defended  the  citadel, 
slew  a  great  number  of  the  assailants,  and  forced  the  remainder  to 
retreat  back  with  their  chief,  Brann,  into  Leinster.  As  this  is 
the  only  reference  in  the  "Annals  of  the  Four  Masters"  to  the 
castellurn  or  mansion-place  of  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal,  and  as  its 
locality  and  the  site  of  the  present  city  of  Kilkenny  are  held  to 
be  identical,  a  short  topographical  digression  may  be  allowed  for 
its  further  illustration. 

DUN-CEARBHAILL  AND  THE  CASTLE  OF  KILKENNY.  —  The 
present  Castle  of  Kilkenny  is  peculiarly  situated  in  relation  to  the 
little  city  which  lies  beneath  it.  To  us,  who  are  wont  to  gaze, 
from  some  intramural  vista,  on  the  proud  and  lofty  aspect  of  its 
frontal  elevation,  as  it  rises  in  colossal  grandeur  from  its  terraced 
basement  to  the  declining  forms  of  its  tower-like  minarets,  it  seems 

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as  if  seated  in  state  on  its  throne-like  eminence,  patronizingly  re- 
irardincr  the  peaceful  domiciles  and  unassuming  mansions  of  the 
nuainU>ld  ville  beneath  its  shadow,  whilst  an  observer  from  the 
more  expansive  prospects  obtained  from  the  eastern  side  of  the 
Nore  where  the  eye  takes  it  in  as  the /ma/,  or  terminating  orna- 
ment'ofthe  house-crowded  ridge  of  the  "  Hightown,"  regards  it 
as  if  reflecting  the  approval  of  its  fairest  aspect  on  the  various 
scenes  of  human  life  in  the  city  below.  Yet,  not  two  centuries 
since,  and  ere  this  castellated  mansion  had  been  denuded  of  its 
embattled  defences  and  fortified  outworks,  it  seemed  to  have  regard 
to  an  opposite  direction,  having  its  rere  turned  towards  the  town, 
which  would  appear  to  have  grown  up  behind  its  back  ;'  its  court 
yard  was  entered  through  a  covered  portal  between  two  bastions 
which  opened  from  an  old  road  which  at  that  time  ran  down  through 
the  present  castle  lawn,  but  which  was  originally  an  important 
highway  that  forded  the  Nore  at  the  site  of  the  present  "  Ormonde 
Mills."  and  on  the  brow2  of  which  a  castle  was  here  first  erected, 


i  Grown  up  behind  its  back.— It  is  sig- 
nificant that  down  to  the  present  day 
the  principal  elevation  of  the  castle  has 
been  designated  its  back;  the  pictu- 
resque piece  of  ground  stretching  from 
the  castle  to  Roseinn-street  is  denomi- 
nated the  back  lawn,  though  it  lies  in 
landscape  order  under  the  frontal  and 
most  graceful  aspect  of  the  building. 
In  Dineley's  pen-and-ink  sketch  of  the 
castle  made  during  his  visit  to  Kilkenny 
in  the  reign  of  Charles  II.,  no  entrance 
into  the  court-yard  is  shown,  because 
the  draft  is  taken  from  the  back  or  city 
aspect.  The  wall  in  which  the  beauti- 
ful classic  gateway  has  been  since  erect- 
ed, and  which  connects  the  south-west 
and  north-west  towers,  was  then  an  un- 
broken curtain  wall  without  any  aper- 
ture, the  entrance  down  to  that  time 
being  from  the  Black  Quarry,  or  south 
side.  In  Rocque's  Survey  of  Kilkenny, 
made  about  the  year  1757,  the  roadway 
from  Archer-street  is  shown  running 
direct  down  through  the  present  castle 
lawn  until  it  arrived  at  the  south  curtain 
wall  of  the  court  yard,  at  which  point 
stood  the  ancient  entrance  into  the  fort- 
ress ;  from  this  gateway  the  road  turned 
by  a  right  angle  over  to  the  head  of 
the  parade,  which  it  entered  through 
the  portal,  then  called  "Castle  Gate." 
In  the  summer  of  1861,  during  the  course 
of  some  excavations  being  effected  in  the 
castle  lawn,  the  foundations  of  the  great 
south  curtain  wall  and  ancient  entrance 
gate,  with  its  two  bastions,  were  fullv 


exposed  to  view.  It  is  a  really  signi- 
ficant circumstance  that  the  entrance 
into  the  castle  should  be  from  without 
the  city,  and  that  the  back  of  that  build- 
ing should  be  found  thus  presented  to 
the  town  which  it  was  always  believed 
had  grown  up  along  with  itself.  No  con- 
ceivable object  can  be  assigned  for  this 
arrangement,  save  that  stated  above, 
viz.,  that  before  this  castle  had  been 
erected,  an  Irish  fortress  occupied  its 
site  ;  that  it  stood  on  the  brow  of  the 
ancient  road  which  forded  the  river  at 
the  site  of  the  present  Ormonde  Mills; 
that  the  entrance  into  the  fortress  was 
from  this  road,  and  not  from  the  city, 
which,  at  that  remote  period  had  no 
existence,  and  that  in  the  remodelling,  or 
rebuilding  of  the  castle  by  William  Earl 
Marshall,  he  adopted  the  original  ground 
plan,  and  erected  the  entrance  on  the 
site  of  the  previous  gateway,  and  not 
the  least  singular  feature  of  the  case  is. 
that  through  the  various  social  and  po- 
litical vicissitudes  of  near  six  hundred 
years  the  entrance  into  the  castle  re- 
mained down  to  the  beginning  of  the  last 
century  locally  the  same  as  it  must  have 
stood  before  the  English  Invasion. 

2  On  the  brow. — The  ancient  Celtic 
villas,  or  ballys,  the  forts  of  the  Irish 
chieftains,  and  the  fortress  of  the  Anglo- 
Norman  barons,  all  stood  on  the  sides 
of  the  public  roads  of  the  time,  and  this 
order  of  social  and  civil  architecture 
continued  in  operation  down  to  the 
end  of  the  seventeenth  century,  when 


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whilst  the  now  adjoining  city  was  still  unreclaimed  from  the  primi- 
tive fastnesses  of  the  valley  of  the  Nore.  It  will  then  be  interest- 
ing and  appropriate  to  introduce  the  grounds  upon  which  I  claim 
a  high  degree  of  antiquity  for  the  Castle  of  Kilkenny,  by  a  short 
illustration  of  this  ancient  roadway,  which  is  apparently  one  of  the 
earliest  of  those  that  entered  the  locality  now  known  as  Kilkenny. 
The  road  just  referred  to  now  enters  the  town  under  the  first 
bridge  of  the  Waterford  and  Kilkenny  Railway,  where  it  is  known 
as  "  William's-lane;"  and  before  I  trace  its  connexion  with  the 
castle,  I  shall  endeavour  to  restore  its  time-worn  pathway,  through 
the  country,  to  its  original  destination.  From  William's-lane  this 
old  by-way  intersects  the  Hebron-road,  at  the  Workhouse  cemetery, 
to  which  locality  we  remember  the  suburban  cottages  to  have 
reached  from  Maudlin-street,  before  the  famine  of  1846.  From 
the  Hebron-road  here  our  old  path  aims  direct  at  "Grarrynacreen," 
the  primitive  outlines  and  interesting  features  of  which  are  still 
remarkable.  We  learn  from  an  inquisition  taken  the  llth  of  Oc- 
tober, 1625,  that  Philip  Purcell,  late  of  Ballyfoyle,  was  seised  of 
the  town  and  lands  of  Garry enchrine  I  Purcialyh,  that  is,  in  Ui 
or  Hy-Purcialyh,  being  a  corruption  or  modification  of  the  Irish 
form  for  Purcell's  country — such  as  Ui  Duach,  or  Hy-Kinshaleh. 
Purcell's  country  extended  from  Ballyfoyle,  the  principal  residence 
of  the  family  in  this  county,  west  of  Claragh,  to  Purcell's  Inch, 
on  the  River  Nore,  which  he  held  "from  the  Earl  of  Ormonde, 

the  age  of  road-making  opened  in  the  the  ancient  churches,  the  Norman  cas- 
British  islands.  According  to  Penant,  ties,  the  manorial  mansions,  &c.,  &c., 
it  was  only  in  1723  that  the  Scottish  now  became  far  removed  from  the  pub- 
Highlands  became  accessible  on  account  lie  highways,  and  were  only  approach- 
of  the  previous  want  of  roads,  and  it  able  by  the  old  neglected  roadways,  now 
was  about  the  same  era  that  the  roads  termed  by-roads  and  bosheens  ;  hence  it 
now  generally  used  in  Ireland  were  became  a  matter  of  necessity  to  connect 
about  being  opened.  The  public  tho-  the  more  important  of  those  localities 
roughfares  of  that  period  in  Ireland  with  the  newly-constructed  highways, 
were  constructed  on  the  same  plan  as  and  from  this  resulted  the  formation  of 
those  then  being  opened  in  Scotland.  the  old  straight  avenues  now  almost  out 
"  They  are  narrow  and  straight,  being  of  use,  and  which  look  so  picturesque, 
carried  over  every  inequality  of  sur-  when  as  most  of  them  are  planted  with 
face ;  the  object  being  to  pursue  straight  stately  elms  or  beech  :  the  spacious  ap- 
lines,  as  if  to  defy  both  nature  and  preaches  to  Bonnetstown,  Kilcreen, 
wheeled  carriages."  Down  to  that  time  Kilferagh,  Sheestown,  Danesfort,  &c., 
the  roads  ran  through  the  country  vil-  &c.,  are  all  to  be  assigned  to  the  early 
lages,  and  immediately  in  front  of  the  part  of  the  first  half  of  the  last  century  ; 
mansions  of  the  gentry.  Before  then  the  but  this  style  of  country  life  has  now 
Ballycallan  road  ran  into  Irishtown  by  been  superseded  by  the  more  modern 
the  hall  door  of  Kilcreen  house.  The  order  of  landscape  gardening.  Our 
old  road  from  Knocktopher  ran  down  country  residences  do  not  now  hold  corn- 
to  Stonecarty  Church,  in  front  of  Flood  mand  of  the  public  highways  ;  they  are 
Hall  house.  Innumerable  such  cases  now  shaded  in  groves  or  parks,  they 
might  be  here  named  if  it  were  neces-  are  surrounded  by  undulating  lawns, 
sary.  The  opening  of  the  new  road-  and  are  approached  by  sweet  paths,  and 
ways  completely  changed  the  social  curving  avenues,  opening  from  graceful 
aspect  of  the  county.  The  rural  villages,  entrance  lodges  at  the  road. 


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as  of  his  manor  of  Gowran."  Garynacreen  must  have  been  a  place 
of  domestic  distinction,  of  comfort  and  hospitality,  in  the  days  of 
the  Purcells'  affluence,  the  conviction  of  which  is  forced  on  the 
observer  by  its  venerable  aspect,  its  fine  plantations,  and  the  moss- 
covered  ruins  of  its  ancient  church.  We  now  ford  the  stream 
here  called  the  Sunneen  dheen,  and  follow  our  old  road  as  it  passes 
in  front  of  a  fine  old  mansion  house1  of  the  last  century,  now  fast 
crumbling  to  decay  ;  thence  along  the  end  of  the  field,  in  which 
stands  erect  the  colossal  pillar-stone  which  excites  the  wonder  of 
every  observer;  we  cross  the  transverse  road  at  the  end  of  Garry- 
imcreen,  and  enter  the  opposite  fields  at  the  western  boundary  of 
the  townland  of  "  Kingsland,"  where  the  old  track  is  marked  by 
a  line  of  ditches,  one  field  in  on  the  south  side  of  the  Johnswell- 
road,  above  the  "  Pococke  School."  Along  this  rustic  boundary 
are  ranged  the  farmers'  houses  of  "  Kingsland,"  which,  though  of 
modern  erection,  their  founders  clung  with  Celtic  tenacity  to  the 
site  of  older  domiciles  which  had  been  built  on  the  brow  of  the 
ancient  road-way,  which,  thence  through  the  townland  of  Green- 
ridge,  inclined  towards  the  Johnswell-road,  and  intersected  it  op- 
posite the  gate  through  which  in  earlier  years  and  in  our  rural 
rani  hies  we  used  to  make  a  "  short  cut"  over  to  Sandfordscourt 
Castle. 

This  old  pathway  through  the  fields  formed  originally  the  con- 
tinuation of  the  road  from  Garrynacreen  ;  it  passed  in  front  of 
this  castle,  from  thence  by  the  end  of  the  field  in  which  stands 
the  old  church  of  Rathcool  to  the  primitive  hamlet  of  Johns- 
well,-  thence  aiming  at  the  north  by  "  Mount  Rose  house,"  where 

1  Mansion-  house — This  old  fabric  The  ancient  Celtic  fortress,  from  which 

used  to  be  called  the  "  Court;"  the  out-  is  derived  the  name  of  this  whole  parish, 

offices  were  very  extensive,  and  the  gar-  viz.  :  Rath-cool,  i.  e.  the  fort  of  the 

dens  and  enclosures  indicate  a  once  im-  ridge,  still  remains  here,  and  presents 

portant  establishment.  Since  the  ob-  yet  its  formidable  aspect  to  an  observer, 

servations  of  the  text  were  first  written  Judging  from  the  magnitude  of  this  rath 

the  whole  building  has  completely  dis-  and  the  great  Urscur  or  street  spread 

appeared.  The  foundations,  sewerage,  out  before  its  front,  the  toparch  who 

and  draw-well,  still  point  out  the  site  of  there  resided  must  have  been  a  chieftain 

the  once  comfortable  domicile.  of  distinction.  It  seems  probable  that 

»  JuhnKivell.  —  The  village  of  Johns-  this  was  the  mansion  of  Maelmaniadhe, 

well,  formerly  so  celebrated  for  its  "  Pa-  a  chieftain  of  Ossory,  in  the  tenth  cen- 

tron  day,"  is  formed  of  an  open  space  or  tury,  who,  with  his  descendants,  are 

green,  in  the  centre  of  which  the  fine  frequently  named  in  the  "  Annals  of  the 

translucent  spring  known  as  "St.  Four  Masters."  The  word  "  Mael"  was 

John's  Well"  is  situated.  This  primi-  an  Irish  prefix  to  family  names  of  much 

live  Urscur  or  Celtic  street,  and  its  use,  use  until  the  establishment  of  sirnames, 

are  thus  described  in  Cormac's  Glossary .  after  which  the  prefix  became  gradually 

Ramat,  i  .e.  wider  than  a  Root,  i.  e.  an  disused,  and  then  Maelmuriadhe  became 

Lrscar,  an  open  space  or  street  which  Murry ;    Maelruain,    Ryan,    and   Mael- 

s  in  front  of  the  forts  of  kings.     Every  maniadhe,   Meany.     I  have  known  over 

keighbonr  whose  land    comes  up  to  it  six   families   of  the  Meanys   about  the 

mnd  to  clean  it."     The  Urscur  of  district  of  Johns  well,  but  whether  their 

Johnswell  is  now  much  encroached  on.  ancestors  were   kings   of  Rathcool,  or 


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part  of  it  still  exists,  as  an  obscure  lane,  it  ran  out  on  the  present 
Tullabirn  road,  where  it  joined  the  old  blind  bosheen  (as  it  is  called) 
from  which  we  have  no  difficulty  in  tracing  its  ancient  line  over  the 
mountains  of  Rathcool,  where  occasionally  it  is  intersected  by  gate- 
ways ;  yet  all  through  it  is  a  public  thoroughfare,  until  it  descends 
into  the  open  country  of  "  Wildfield,"  an  irregular,  bason-like 
valley,  between  the  hills  of  Muckalee.  Here  the  old  road  has  been 
so  distorted,  in  endeavouring  to  accommodate  it  to  modern  con- 
venience, that  it  presents  a  very  complicated  appearance.  It  fords 
the  Dubhglas,  or  black  stream,  under  Rockbrook  House,  the  resi- 
dence of  the  Rev.  Michael  Birch,  P.P.,  an  enlightened  antiquarian, 
and  now  for  many  years  a  member  of  this  Society.  Having  in  the 
course  of  the  past  summer  spent  a  day  with  him  amongst  those 
alpine  ridges  of  the  Johnswell  mountains,  where  the  gentle  breezes 
of  the  plain  beneath  sweep  over  those  lofty  peaks  in  volumes  of 
hazy  storm  and  mountain  fog,  I  communicated  to  him  my  convic- 
tion that  the  old  bosheen  running  under  his  house  formed  part  of  a 
great  highway  that  in  early  times  connected  Athy  with  Kilkenny. 
He  informed  me  that  the  peculiarities  of  this  curious  old  road  had 
often  attracted  his  own  attention,  and  he  proposed  a  short  excursion 
along  its  line,  from  which  we  might  glean  some  further  information 
respecting  its  mountain  course.  We  traced  it  through  Wildfield, 
where  there  is  no  mistaking  its  track  in  the  ruins  of  once  extensive 
farming  establishments.  From  this  it  is  modernised  into  the  high 
road  that  now  runs  in  front  of  the  parish  chapel  of  Muckalee  to 
Clogharinka  Castle,  where  it  bifurcates,  sending  off  a  modern 
branch  to  face  the  breast  of  the  hills,  over  which  it  climbs  on  its 
way  to  Old  Leighlin ;  the  original  line  descends  from  Clogharinka, 
the  declivity  of  the  hill,  to  the  summit  of  which  we  now  ascended 
above  the  old  ruin,  and  working  our  way  through  masses  of  heath, 
stumps  of  furze,  and  ledges  of  rock,  AVC  gained  the  northern  bluff 
of  the  ridge  on  which  stands  the  chapel  of  Muckalee.  It  was  a 
clear  harvest  mid-day,  and  the  orb  of  noon  shed  floods  of  golden 

otherwise,    can   of  course    be   no   more  Cantwell's  Court ;  when  they  were  mar- 

than  conjecture.     Except  the  rath,  the  ried,  and  whether  they  had  any  issue. 

Urscur,  and  the  well,  the  place  retains  John  Butler,  of  Rathcowle,  deposed  that 

no  trace   of  any  previous   importance.  John    Shortal    and    Johanna    Cantwell 

The  chapel  and  the  graveyard,    which  were  married  in  the  parish   church  of 

covers  a  portion  of  the  ancient  green,  are  Rathcowle,  at  Christmas,  and  about  mid- 

of  comparative  modern  origin,  and  could  summer  next  ensuing  had  issue  a  son. 

have  had  no  existence  until  the  parish  Thomas    Iver    Obragh,    of  Tollcastle 

church  of  Rathcool  had  became  a  ruin,  (Oldcastle?).    Annastace  Iny    Kre,   of 

which    must  be   assigned  to  the   time  Cantwellscourte   agreed  with  the    last 

when   the  Cantwells  lost  their  posses-  witness,  and  further  deposed  that  "  af- 

sions  in  Cantwell's  Court  and  Rathcool.  ter  the  Marriage,  Mass  was   said  and 

According  to  a  Patent  Roll,    5th   Ed-  ministered  at  the  feast."     The  ruins  of 

ward  VI.,  1551,  interrogations  were  di-  Rathcool    church  now  present  a   most 

rected  to  ascertain  whether  John  Shortal  desolate  aspect  on  the  side  of  the  road 

was   married  to  Johanna  Cantwell,   of  opposite  Sandfordscourt  Castle, 


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sunlight  over  the  face  of  the  great  prospect  now  spread  out  beneath 
our  feet.  The  expansive  fasagh  of  the  Dinan  now  discovered  the 
eccentric  curvings  of  that  stream,  as  it  reflected  back  the  solar  rays 
in  gilded  lines;  down  to  this  stream  from  Clogharinka  Castle  we 
now  trace  the  old  road  from  Garrynacreen,  and  here,  fording  the 
river  at  a  broad  shallow,  it  again  creeps  up  the  opposite  acclivity, 
now  curving  round  the  base  of  an  insurmountable  cliff,  again  it 
sinks  to  the°level  of  a  verdant  sward,  and  again  we  discern  it  run- 
ning along  the  summit  of  an  arid  rid«e ;  and  thus  did  we  trace  its 
irregular  outlines  over  the  hills  of  Fassidineen.  It  runs  direct 
through  Smithstown  Cross  :  keeping  about  two  miles  east  of 
Castlecomer,  it  enters  the  barony  of  "  Sliabh  Margy,"  the  ancient 
principality  of  Laighis,  or  Leix,  in  the  now  Queen's  County.  By 
the  aid  of  the  Ordnance  Map  of  the  barony  of  Slieve  Margy,  1 
have  traced  its  course  over  these  hilly  districts :  occasionally  it 
forms  the  segment  of  a  modern  road  ;  now  it  is  lost  in  the  fields; 
but  again  we  discover  it  in  a  townland  boundary  or  an  obscure 
bosheen,  until  it  descends  from  the  mountains  to  ford  the  Barrow 
at  Athy.  I  have  no  hesitation  in  asserting  this  to  be  the  remains 
of  one  of  the  most  ancient  roads  that  entered  Kilkenny,  and  it  cer- 
tainly appears  to  be  the  road  on  u  Gabhair"  by  which  Conall 
Cearnach  travelled  to  Rathbeath,  in  the  second  century.1 

We  now  return  to  the  entrance  of  this  road  into  Kilkenny.  At 
the  Railway  bridge  it  is  now  called  "  Williams'-lane,"  so  known 
from  the  Salt  Works  there,  of  which  Mr.  Williams  is  the  pro- 
prietor. Forty  years  ago  it  was  known  as  the  Chapel  bosheen,  as  it 
then  formed  a  "short  cut"  by  Garrynacreen  to  the  neighbouring 
house  of  worship.  In  the  year  1819  it  was  intersected  by  the  new 
road  from  Windgap  to  Upper  John-street.  Previous  to  this  it  ran 
direct  into  Maudlin-street,  opposite  the  Magdalene  mill,  where  it 
is  still  open  and  crowded  with  houses,  and  which  marks  the  place 
where  it  originally  forded  the  Nore.  It  was  on  the  brow  of  this 
ancient  road  that  the  old  "  Black  Castle"  in  Maudlin-street  was 
erected.  The  doorway  of  this  structure  faced  the  old  road,  or  rather 
faced  the  bawn  or  courtyard  that  stretched  out  in  front  of  this  castle, 
which  seems  to  have  been  originally  designed  and  constructed  as  the 
keeper  stronghold  for  the  protection  of  the  farmyard,  barns,  grana- 
ries, &c.,  belonging  to  the  lord  of  Kilkenny  Castle,  which  were 
situated  on  the  east  side  of  the  Nore ;  and,  as  there  was  no  pass 
over  the  river  between  the  site  of  this  castle  and  that  of  the  present 
Green's  Bridge,  the  locality  of  the  present  "Ormond  Mills"  must 

i  Conall  Cearneach.—See  an  account  extracted  from  the  "Book  ofLeinster" 

off  this  pre-Christian  chieftain's  excur-  and  published  in  the  introduction  pre- 

sion  from  the  banks  of  the  Liffey,  in  fixed  to  the  "Book  of  Rights"  by  its 

Idare  to  the  valley  of  the  Nore,  near  learned  Editor,  the  late  Dr.  O'Donovan, 

Rathbeath,  m  the  county  of  Kilkenny,  p.  lx. 


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have  been  the  ordinary  ford  over  the  Nore  previous  to  the  erection 
of  St.  John's  Bridge,  and,  consequently,  at  that  period  Williams'- 
lane  ran  directly  over  the  stream,  down  through  the  castle  grounds, 
and  in  front  of  the  castle  itself.  When  in  late  years  the  ford  here 
was  converted  into  a  mill,  the  old  road  on  the  castle  side  of  the 
river  was  supplied  by  a  substitute  removed  more  remote  from  the 
castle,  so  as  to  aiford  that  mansion  a  more  commodious  lawn  or 
demesne.  This  modification  of  the  original  road  existed  down  to 
our  own  time,  under  the  name  of  the  "  Mill-road,"  and  was  only 
closed  up  about  ten  years  since.  From  the  castle,  on  the  western 
side  of  the  town,  the  course  of  this  road  cannot  be  determined  with 
the  same  degree  of  certainty  as  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  river, 
as  is  to  be  expected  from  the  social  changes  and  topographical  mo- 
difications consequent  on  the  erection  of  the  "Hightown ;"  but  as  re- 
gards its  situation  and  direction  north-east  from  the  Castle,  nothing 
can  be  more  certain  than  that,  at  whatever  period  it  was  constructed, 
it  was  designed  as  the  medium  of  communication  between  the  two 
most  ancient  provinces  in  Leinster — namely,  Laighin  tuath  Gabhair, 
i.  e.  Leinster  north  of  the  Gabhran  hills,  and  Laighin  deas  Gabhair, 
or  Leinster  south  of  the  same  ridge.  It  led  by  the  most  direct 
line  from  the  site  of  the  present  Castle  of  Kilkenny,  \n\Laighin  deas 
Gabhair,  over  the  Gabhran  hills,  through  the  kingdom  of  Laeighis, 
or  Leix,  in  the  now  Queen's  County,  whence  it  descended  from  the 
high  grounds  of  Sliabh  Margie,  to  ford  the  Barrow  at  Athy,  where 
it  entered  the  territory  of  Laighin  tuath  Gabhair,  which  was  nearly 
identical  with  the  present  counties  of  Kildare  and  Wicklow.  Car- 
low  and  Wexford  were  then  known  as  Idrone  and  Hy-Kinshaleh. 
Having  now  sketched  the  topographical  outlines  of  this  obscure 
by-way,  we  shall  see  if  history  sheds  even  one  ray  of  light  on  the 
antiquity  of  its  existence. 

In  the  "  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,"  just  quoted,  we  find,  at 
the  year  868,  that  whilst  Aedh  Finnlaith,  King  of  Ireland,  and 
Cearbhall,  King  of  Osraigh,  were  engaged  in  plundering  Leinster, 
the  former  from  Dublin  to  Gowran,  and  the  latter  along  the  more 
eastern  districts  as  far  up  as  Dunlavin,  in  the  county  Wicklow,  the 
Leinster  men,  under  the  command  of  Brann,  son  of  the  then  king 
of  that  province,  made  a  raid  into  Ossory,  when  we  are  told  that 
they  "  attacked  the  forts  of  Cearbhall,  and  of  Mac  Gaithin."  We 
have  here  three  localities  pointed  out,  and  their  relative  situations 
will  enable  us  to  identify  the  route  of  the  Leinstermen  on  their 
plundering  excursion.  First,  the  residence  of  the  King  of  Leinster, 
whose  son  was  captain  of  the  raid,  was  then  called  "  Kath-Brann," 
or  Dunbrain,  near  Baltinglass,  in  the  now  county  of  Wicklow,  and 
consequently  in  Laighin  tuath  Gabhair ;  secondly,  we  are  told  that 
"they  spoiled  MacGaithin's  mansion  place,"  and  we  learn  from  the 
"  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters"  that  this  MacGaithin  was  Lord  of 


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Laechis,  or  Leix,  in  the  now  Queen's  County ;  and  hence  the  line 
of  march  adopted  by  the  Leinstermen  from  Dunbrann  must  have 
been  over  the  Barrow,  at  Athy,  whence  they  got  on  the  old  road  on 
Gabhair,  which  led  them  through  the  kingdom  of  Laeighis,  where 
they  paid  their  respects  to  the  mansion  of  the  lord  of  that  country. 
The  party  under  Brann  were  probably  induced  to  select  this  route 
intoOsraigh  in  preference  to  that  through  "BaelachGabhram,"  from 
the  circumstance  that  the  plains  of  Leinster,  as  far  as  Gowran,  were 
then  being  scoured  by  the  troops  of  Aedh  Finnliath,  with  whom 
Cearbhalf  was  acting  in  concert.  After  spoiling  MacGaithin's 
house,  the  Leinstermen  proceed  to  attack  the  "  fort  of  Cearbhall." 
Here,  however,  they  were  repulsed  by  the  "people  of  the  Long- 
phort,"  who  fought  with  great  bravery,  slew  a  great  number  of  the 
assailants,  and  compelled  the  remainder  to  retreat  back  into  Lein- 
ster ;  and  here  now  we  have  to  inquire  where  was  the  fort  of  Cear- 
bhall situated? 

That  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal  held  the  seat  of  his  government 
in  "  Magh-Rath,"  that  this  territory  from  him  assumed  the  name  of 
"  Cluain  Ui-Cearbhaill,"  and  that  this  verdant  lawn  included  within 
its  limits  the  site  of  the  present  city  of  Kilkenny,  are  points  which 
we  have  already  demonstrated.  Was  Kilkenny,  then,  the  capital  of 
Ui-Cearbhaill  ?  Upon  the  topographical  and  historical  evidence  ad- 
duced, it  cannot  be  doubted  that  from  whatever  period  Ui-Cear- 
bhaill became  a  district  of  distinction,  the  site  of  our  present  city 
must  have  been  its  capital,  no  matter  by  what  name  it  was  then  re- 
cognised. Was  Dun-Cearbhaill  then  situated  within  the  limits  of 
the  present  city  ?  If  so,  the  old  road  "  on  Gabhair  "  led  the  Lein- 
stermen directly  into  it.  Did  it  stand  on  the  site  of  the  present 
castle  of  Kilkenny  ?  If  so,  the  same  road  conducted  them  from  the 
fort  of  Mac  Gaithin  in  Leix  by  Garrynacreen,  and  thence  over  the 
Nore  to  the  very  base  of  its  defences. 

But  we  have  materials  at  hand  that  enable  us  to  determine 
with  certainty  the  site  of  the  fort  of  Cearbhaill  MacDunghal. 
Donnchadh,  son  of  Ceallach  and  grandson  to  Cearbhall,  suc- 
ceeded to  the  kingdom  of  Osraigh  in  the  year  927.  As  we  shall 
have  some  inquiries  to  make  hereafter  respecting  his  more  public 
actions,  I  shall  confine  myself  here  to  those  that  effect  the  point 
now  under  discussion.  Keating1  (who  compiled  his  history  from 
sources  no  longer  accessible)  eulogizes  Donnchadh  for  his  solici- 
tude to  provide  support  for  the  churches  and  the  poor  of  his  king- 
dom, and  the  details  of  the  organization  by  which  he  effected  these 

>  Keating.— 1\w  passage  quoted  above  made  by  Dr.  John  Lynch,  and  for  the 

is  not  to  be  found  in  any  of  this  author's  first  time  published  by  the  Rev.  James 

published  translations.    It  is  taken  from  Graves.    "  See  History,  Antiquities,  and 

a  transcript  made  by  the  late  Dr.  O'Do-  Architecture  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of 

novan,  from  a  Latin  version  of  Keating,  St.  Canice,"  p.  8,  n.  b. 


133 

objects,  though  they  bear  the  impress  of  the  rude  simplicity  of  their 
age,  differ  little  from  the  plans  adopted  at  the  present  day  to  col- 
lect alms  for  the  support  of  religious  and  charitable  institutions. 
"  In  singulis  etiam  Ossiriaa  domibus  tres  coriasios  saculos  haberi 
curavit,  in  quorum  uno  decimam  edulij  sui  partem  singuli  reconde- 
bant;  alter  stipem  pauperibus  assignatum  Hibernice  TTlip  TThchil, 
id  est,  portio  Michaelis  asservabat;  postremo  micte  et  reliquiae, 
matrefamilias  potissimum  sollicitante  committebantur."  Which 
may  be  thus  translated  : — "  He  also  took  care  that  three  leathern 
bags  should  be  kept  in  each  house  in  Ossory,  in  one  of  which  each 
person  laid  by  the  tenth  part  of  his  food;  in  the  second  were  pre- 
served the  alms  allotted  for  the  poor,  called  in  Irish  "  mir  Michil" 
that  is  the  portion  of  St.  Michael  ;  and  in  the  last,  crumbs  and 
other  things  were  kept,  chiefly  at  the  solicitation  of  the  lady  of 
the  house."  The  alms  preserved  in  the  second  bag  were  collected 
fc>£  the  support  of  a  public  charitable  institution  called  "  Mir 
Michil"1  from  being  instituted  under  the  patronage  of  that  saint, 
and  apparently  analogous  to  the  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Society  of 
the  present  day.  As  Donnchadh  "  had  been  accustomed  to  sup- 
port orphans  or  any  persons  oppressed  with  poverty  in  the  houses 
of  his  friends,"  it  seems  that  the  crumbs,  &c.,  collected  in  the  third 
satchel  by  the  care  of  the  mother  of  the  family,  were  reserved 
for  that  class  of  indigents  ;  and  as  regards  the  first  satchel  which 
contained  the  tenth  part  of  the  food,  or  the  tithes  of  the  provisions 
of  the  house,  no  doubt  can  be  entertained  that  it  was  the  portion 
of  the  Church.  We  have  no  information  respecting  the  mode  by 
which  this  latter  benefaction  was  distributed  :  it  is  probable  that 
originally  it  was  designed  for  the  support  of  the  clergy  of  the 
church  of  the  manor  or  the  family  chapel ;  yet  in  later  times  it 
seems  to  have  been  disposed  of  through  the  hands  of  the  bishop, — 
for  we  find  Felix  O'Dullany  granting  to  Prior  Osbert  and  the 
rest  of  his  brethren  of  the  Hospital  of  St.  John,  at  the  east  side 
of  the  bridge  of  Kilkenny,  the  tithes  or  tenth  part  of  all  the  pro- 
visions of  the  Castle  in  pure  and  perpetual  alms  ;2  or,  in  other 
words,  he  grants  them,  according  to  the  institution  of  Donn- 
chadh, the  satchel  which  contained  the  tenth  part  of  all  the  provi- 
sions or  food  received  into  that  mansion.  That  O'Dullany  acted 


1  Mir  Michail. — This  charitable   in-  Graves    for   this    important  historical 
stitution  was   first   established  by   St.  item ;  he  quotes  it  from  excerpts  from 
Patrick   and   Queen   Loaghaire :   a  de-  the   Cartulary   of  the    Hospital    of  St. 
tailed    account  of  it  will   be  found  in  John,   Kilkenny,  in    Sir  James  Ware's 
Keating's  '  History,' Life  of  St.  Patrick.  autograph,  dated  June  5th,  1638,  British 
Like  most  other  occurrences,  it  is  en-  Museum,  Lansdown  MSS.,  Plut.  Ixxvj., 
veloped  in  fable.  E.  418.     See  "  History,  Antiquities,  and 

2  Alms. — We    are    indebted   to    the  Architecture  of  the  Cathedral  Church 
literary  researches   of  the  Rev.  James  of  St.  Canice,"  p.  29,  note  a. 

T 


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on  this  occasion  in  virtue  of  the  right  vested  in  him  by  the  institu- 
tion of  Donnchadh  is  certain  from  the  fact  that  he,  an  Irish 
bishop,  whose  cathedral  church  was  then  at  Achabo,  a  district  in 
open  defiance  of  English  rule,  would  not  dare  to  come  down  from 
the  wilds  of  "  Coil-Uachtoragh"1  in  the  heart  of  an  unconquered 
country  to  levy  an  impost  on  the  citadel  of  the  Anglo-Norman 
feudal  lord,  at  the  very  period  that  this  bold  adventurer  was 
flushed  with  the  triumph  of  his  arms  over  the  native  race,  except 
that  he  acted  on  the  prescriptive  rights  inherited  from  his  predeces- 
sors, and  which  must  have  been  recognised  by  the  then  newly 
constituted  lord  of  the  castle.  It  may  be  objected  here  that 
though  O'Dullany  acted  on  this  occasion  in  virtue  of  the  right 
derived  from  the  institution  of  Donnchadh,  it  does  not  follow 
thence  that  the  castle  in  which  it  was  then  observed  was  the  same 
mansion  in  which  Uonnchadh  resided  and  first  instituted  the 
custom,  inasmuch  as  he  established  the  same  in  every  house^n 
his  kingdom.  Though  this  inference  might  be  fairly  deduced 
from  the  authorities  cited,  it  will  still  necessarily  follow  that  the 
castle  of  Kilkenny  stands  on  the  site  of  an  ancient  Irish  mansion,  in 
which  the  institutions  and  customs  of  the  kings  of  Osraigh  were 
preserved  down  to  the  English  Invasion,  and  as  this  mansion  stood 
in  the  capital  of  Cluain  Ui  Ceabhaill^  and  on  the  brow  of  the  ancient 
road  that  led  from  "  Laighin  tuath  Gabhair,"  by  the  house  of  Mac 
Gaithin,  in  Laeighis  (Leix),  and  thence  to  the  fort  of  Cearbhall 
MacDonghal,  in  Laighin  deas  Gubhair,  I  know  not  on  what 
ground  it  can  be  denied  that  this  was  the  site  on  which  he  first 
erected  his  Castellum,  and  in  which  his  grandson,  Donchadh,  sub- 
sequently resided,  and  where  he  established  that  singular  institu- 
tion which  existed  here  down  to  the  time  of  the  Earl  Marshall. 

Yet  it  appears  certain  that  the  seat  of  O'Cearbhall's  admistra- 
tion  was  undistinguished  by  any  particular  title  during  the  period 
of  his  own  life.  In  the  annals  it  is  simply  called  "  Dun-Cearbhaill" 
which  implies  that  it  did  not  stand  in  a  locality  of  previous  cele- 
brity, as  the  record  would  not  fail  to  add  its  name.  It  is  called 

Dun-Cearbhaill,"  whence  we  are  to  infer  that  Cearbhall  himself 

erected  this  castellum,  which  assumed  the  title  of  its  founder; 

further,  that  this  fort  was  surrounded  by  a  stone  cashel,  and  from 

which  came  the  title  of  the  part  of  Upper  Patrick-street,  still  called 

This  word  being  of  purely  Celtic  origin,   could  not 

lave  been  derived  from  any  other  source  than,  the  existence  of  that 

which  it  implies,  namely,  "  a  circular  stone  fort;"  and,  as  the  cas- 

llums  ot  the  great  feudatories  or  kings  were  alone  furnished  with 
follows  that  its  use  as  a  topographical  term  in  Kil- 


Uood     inTh.  o°W,oe    ar°ny  °f      ancient  tribe  land  of  ^e  O'Dullany,  or 
Upperwoods,  m  the  Queen's  County,  the       O'Delanys. 


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kenny  has  been  preserved  from  the  period  when  it  enclosed  the 
castellum  of  the  local  dynast  in  the  same  neighbourhood  ;  and  as 
we  find  this  fort  standing  here  at  the  Anglo-Norman  Invasion,  I 
consider  it  proved  that,  on  the  site  of  the  present  castle  of  Kil- 
kenny, the  Munster  monarch  enjoyed  the  hospitable  fare  of  the 
King  of  Osraigh  ;  that  here  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghall,  and  his 
daughter,  "  Mor,  Queen  of  Laighin  deas  Gabhair,"  lived  in  state; 
and  that  this  was  the  "  Dun-Cearbhaill"  which  was  attacked  by  the 
Leinstermen,  and  which  the  people  of  the  fortress  so  bravely  de- 
fended. In  the  sequel  of  this  essay  I  undertake  to  establish  that 
this  castle  continued  to  be  the  residence  of  the  kings  of  Osraigh 
down  to  the  year  1170,  when  Diarmaid  Mac  Muirchadha  banished 
the  son  and  successor  of  Donnchadh  Mac  Gillaphadraig  to  Upper 
Osraigh,  after  which  the  castle  was  taken  possession  of  by  the  Eng- 
lish retainers  of  Diarmaid,  then  called  "  Galls."  From  this  strong- 
hold Domhnall  O'Brien  expelled  them  in  1172,  or  1173,  when  he 
is  said  to  have  demolished  the  ancient  fort,  and  on  the  site  of  which 
the  Earl  Marschall  subsequently  erected  that  proud  Norman  resi- 
dence, which,  through  various  vicissitudes  and  sundry  modifications, 
has  come  down  to  our  own  times  identified  with  the  salient  epochs 
in  the  chequered  history  of  the  Anglo- Irish  race. 

Having  thus  concluded  our  discussion,  we  resume  our  memoir 
of  Cearbhall  Mac  Dunghal. 

In  the  year  868,  we  read  of  Cearbhall,  at  the  head  of  the  Os- 
raigh, invading  the  territory  of  Deisi,  when  Corcran  and  Gorman, 
two  petty  dynasts  of  that  territory,  were  slain  by  them.  In  the 
year  869,  Cearbhall  and  his  clansmen  plundered  Connaught,  thence 
he  made  a  raid  through  Munster,  which  he  spoiled  and  harassed 
from  the  mountains  of  Sliebh-Luachra  westwards  to  the  sea.  It 
was  whilst  he  was  thus  engaged,  and  "  during  the  snow  of  Bridget- 
mas  this  year,"  that  the  lords  of  the  foreigners  were  plundering  and 
slaying  "  the  men  of  the  three  plains."  These  three  plains,  according 
to  the  opinion  of  Dr.  O'Donovan,  were  "  Magh  Airbh,"  Magh  Sedna, 
and  Magh  Tuath  ;  the  latter  was  situated  in  Upper  Osraigh.  It  ap- 
pears to  me  much  more  probable  that  the  three  plains  referred  to 
were  Magh  Roighna,  Magh  Airged-Ros,  and  Magh  Tuath.  These 
three  territories  extend  the  entire  length  of  Osraigh,  from  the  base 
of  the  Slieve  Bloom  mountains  in  the  north,  to  the  Walsh  moun- 
tains in  the  south,  through  the  pass  in  which  the  foreigners  usually 
entered  Osraigh  from  their  fleet  in  the  bay  of  Port  Largie  (i.  e.  Wa- 
terford  Harbour).  In  the  year  872,  Cearbhall  again  ravaged  the 
country  of  Deisi  as  far  as  "  Bealach-Eochaille,"  i.  e.  as  far  as  the 
ballagh  or  pass  of  Youghal.  In  the  year  876,  "  A  defeat  was  given 
to  the  Leinstermen  at  Uachtar-dara,  when  Bolgodhar,  son  of 
Maelceir,  was  killed."  In  this  name,  Bolgodhar,  the  dh  would  be 
aspirated,  leaving  the  pronunciation,  Bolgohar,  apparently  the 


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Celtic  form  of  the  family  name,  Bolger.'      The  word  Uachtar- 
dara  would  be  pronounced  Uachter-arra,  and,   according  to  the 
inion  of  O'Donovan  and  the  Inquisition,  quoted  above,  refers 
to  the  locality  now  called  Outrath.     This  victory  is  immediately 
followed,  and  in  the  same  year,  by  another  thus  recorded  :—<  A 
slaughter  was  made  of  the  people  of  Laighin  dear  Gabhair,   at 
Fulachta    by  the  Osraighi,  wherein  Donag,  son  of  Anmchadch, 
and  Dubhthoirtrigh,  son  of  Maelduin,  were  slain,  together  with 
two  hundred  men,   who  were  cut  off  by  slaying  and  droiumng. ' 
The  district  at  the  time  of  this  event  called  Laighin  deas  trabhair, 
wi3  identical  with  that  marked  Magh  Mail  on  the  map  which  ac- 
companied the  last  section  of  this  essay,  and  may  be  here  described 
as  the  country  lying  between  the  present  parish  of  Gowran  and  the 
River  Barrow.     The  battle  here  recorded  must  have  taken  place 
on  the  banks  of  the  River  Nore,  for  the  "drowning"  could  not  be 
performed  unless  at  that  or  the  Barrow  river  ^  it  is  not  probable 
that  the  people  of  Osraigh  would  pass  out  of  their  own  country  and 
attack  the  Laighin  deas  Gabhair  on  the  River  Barrow,  it  is  much 
more  probable  that  this  action  was  the  result  of  another  raid  made 
by  the  La^cnians  of  that  district  into  Osraigh,  and  that  in  crossing 
the  Nore  they  were  interrupted  by  the  tribesmen  of  Cearbhall  Mac 
Dunghal.    It  appears  to  me  highly  probable  that  the  word  Fulachta 
is  preserved  in  the  name  ot'  a  very  obscure  but  very  primitive  lo- 
cality near  Bennet's-bridge,   where  the  ancient  road  from  Boher- 
nathoundish  forded  the  River  Nore  at  Bally reddin  Mill.   This  place  is 
called,  amongst  the  natives  of  the  locality,  Poulathney,  orPowlatna, 
as  near  as  1  can  take  down  the  sound.    This  may  be  a  corruption,  or 
modification  of  Fulachta:  its  proximity  to  the  river  and  to  the  lo- 
cality of  the  ancient  pass  from  Gowran  would  incline  me  to  believe 
that'it  was  the  site  of  the  battle,  where  the  "two  hundred  men 
were  cut  off  by  slaying  and  drowning."     This  same  year  another 
victory  was  gained  by  Cearbhall  and  the  people  of  Deisi,  which  is 
thus  entered  :  "  A.  D.  —  876,  A  victory  was  gained  by  Cearbhall 
and  by  the  Deisi  over  the  men  of  Munster,  at  Inneoin,  where  fell 
Flannabhra,  Lord  ofGabhra,   and  many  others  along  with  him." 
Inneoin  is  now  called  Mullinahone,  about  four  miles  south-west  of 
Callan. 

We  are  now  hastening  to  the  close  of  this  remarkable  man's 
career.  It  is  forty  years  since  he  inaugurated  his  public  mission 
in  a  grand  feat  of  arms  at  Cam-Brammit,  where  1200  of  the  in- 
vaders were  slain  in  his  rage.  Since  then  the  impetuous  ardour  of 
youth  had  sobered  down  to  the  determined  valour  of  manhood,  but 
now  the  matured  prowess  of  his  dauntless  spirit  subsides  into  in- 

'  Bolger  was  a  common  name  about      was    most  probably  the   name   of  the 
Kilkenny  down  to  a  late  period,  and  it       chieftain  of  Outrath. 


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activity  before  the  gradual  but  steady  advances  of  old  age :  seven 
years  elapse  and  his  name  is  not  recorded  in  the  "  Annals."  The 
foreigners  lay  waste  the  fair  plains  of  his  kingdom,  and  Cearbhall 
does  not  appear  to  confront  them  ;  Cuilan,  his  son  and  intended 
successor,  assumes  the  chieftain's  mantle,  and  stands  at  the  head  of 
his  faithful  clansmen,  but  this,  the  only  record  of  his  name,  is  also 
his  funeral  panegyric,  for  we  read,  "  Cuilan,  son  of  Cearbhall,  and 
Maelfebhail,  son  of  Muircheartach,  were  slain  by  the  Norsemen,  of 
whom  [i.  e.  of  Cullen]  was  said,"  say  the  Annalists— 

"  May  Cuilan  be  under  the  protection  of  God  from  the  pains  of  hell 

of  ill  flavour. 

We   did  not   think   that  Cuilen   would    [thus]    have  perished  ;   we 
thought  he  would  be  king." 

Whether  this  event  preyed  on  the  declining  years  of  the  vene- 
rable old  chieftain  we  are  not  informed,  but  in  the  following  year, 
namely,  885,  he  shares  the  common  lot  of  humanity,  and  his  life  of 
heroism  and  daring  is  closed  by  this  simple  record  :  "  Cearbhall, 
son  of  Dunghal,  Lord  of  Osraighe,  died." 

Were  we  in  possession  of  the  historical  statistics  of  Cearbhall 
Mac  Dunghall's  reign,  we  might  be  able  to  prove  that  what  the 
Annalists  call  a  "  plundering"  expedition,  according  to  the  language 
of  the  time,  was  but  a  laudable  intervention  between  some  power- 
ful feudatory  and  his  helpless  and   unprotected  subordinate,  or  a 
raid  into  a  neighbouring  territory  to  chastise  the  native  treason  of 
its  Toparch  for  conniving  at  or  assisting  the  invasion  of  the  fo- 
reigners.   In  the  absence  of  those  details,  we  can  form  our  estimate 
of  his  public  reputation  from  the  position  of  eminence  to  which  he 
was  raised  by  the  bishops  of  Ireland  at  the  great  convention  of  the 
nobles  and  kings  of  the  nation  in  Westmeath,  when  the  Comharbs 
of  Patrick  and  Finnian  invested  him  above  all  others  with  the  ho- 
norable privilege  of  announcing  to  the  assembled  potentates  that 
Malachy,  King  of  Ireland,  possessed  the  sympathy  and  co-opera- 
tion of  the  Church  in  his  efforts  to  effect  harmony  and  reconcilia- 
tion in  the  kingdom  ;  and  this   estimate  is  further  sustained  by 
the  more  frequent  and  distinguished  references  to  him  in  the  Irish 
Annals,  than  to  any  other  king  of  his  age.     In  those  meagre  en- 
tries of  our  concise  records,  we  have  the  outlines  of  a  great  charac- 
ter.    Had  they  been  filled  in  by  a  biographer,  or  shaded  into  re- 
lief by  the  artistic  hand  of  a  panegyrist,  we  should  have  O'Carroll 
standing  out  in  isolated  prominence  among  the  leaders  of  his  time 
as  the  father  of  his  people,  as  an  uncompromising  patriot,  and  as 
an  heroic  and  gallant  chieftain  ;  and  if  we  require  further  proof  of 
this,  we  have  it  in  the  grand  testimonial  erected  to  his  memory  by 
his  descendants — namely,  the  identification  with  his  name  of  the 
seat  of  his  royalty,  the  fairest  plain  of  the  ancient  Osraigh,  which 


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they  dignified  with  the  title  of  "  Cluain  Ui  Cearbhall,"  i.  e.  the 
lawn  or  plain  of  O'Carroll,  and  thus  perpetuated  to  future  genera- 
tions the  name  and  the  memory  of  Osraigh's  greatest  king  ;  and 
hence  the  encomiums,  like  flowers  strewn  along  a^hero's  path,  with 
which  O'Heerin  decorates  his  memory,  and  which  seem  at  first 
sight  as  poetic  hyperboles,  but  in  reality  are  extracts  from  the 
compilations  of  some  contemporary  bard  who,  in  the  exuberance 
of  his  attachment,  thus  commemorates  the  virtues  of  his  chief. 
"  O'Cearbhall,  for  whom  the  trees  are  ruddy,"  implying  the  general 
jubilation  of  even  the  inhabitants  of  the  vegetable  kingdom  on  his 
approach,  and  under  whose  rule  the  barbarians  dare  not  devastate 
the  lair  plains  of  Osraigh,  and  for  whom,  in  consequence,  the  fields 
are  green  and  the  trees  are  ruddy;  and  again  "O'Cearbhall  for 
whom  the  sea  is  smooth,"  by  which  we  are  not  to  understand,  as 
O' Donovan  facetiously  but  inconsiderately  insinuates,  that  the  Irish 
kings,  as  well  as  the  Irish  saints,  were  invested  with  supreme  com- 
mand over  the  elements  ;  our  poetic  author  here,  by  a  species  of 
bardic  licence,  conveys  his  ideas  of  the  welcome  with  which  the 
waves  and  the  sea  greet  the  presence  of  him  who  subdued  the  hordes 
of  seafaring  barbarians  who  then  inundated  every  other  part  of  Ire- 
land, but  were  kept  at  bay  by  the  indomitable  energy  and  superior 
prowess  of  the  vigilant  commander  of  Osraigh.  And  then  refer- 
ring to  the  territory  subject  to  his  righteous  rule,  we  are  told  that — 

"  From  Cill  Cainnigh,  of  the  limestones, 
To  Sliabh  G-caithle,  of  beauteous  slope, 
Is  Cluain  Ui-Cearbhaill, 
Land  of  the  green,  rich,  grassy  carpet." 

We  have  already  identified  this  verdant  land  of  O'Carroll  as  being 
co  extensive  with  the  present  barony  of  Shillelogher,  the  liberties 
of  the  city  of  Kilkenny,  and  those  parts  of  the  barony  of  Gowran 
lying  along  the  base  of  the  "  Johnswell  Mountains"  called  Claragh, 
with  its  south-eastern  continuation  through  Dunbell  and  Tulla- 
hern. 

(To  be  continued.) 


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ANCIENT  nags  AND  oiicnrms. 

THE  FEE-BOOK  OF  A  PHYSICIAN  OF  THE    SEVENTEENTH 

CENTURY. 


BY  MAURICE  LENIHAN,  ESQ.,    M.  R.  I.  A.,    AUTHOR  OF  THE   "  HISTORY 
OF    LIMERICK,"    ETC.    ETC. 

( Continued  from  p.  33.) 

"  Nicholas  Henrici  Whyte  a  febre  Petechiali1  liberatus  21° 

Octob., 

"  Eadem  Prascentoris  uxor  Goagh  23°  Octobris,     .... 

"  Guilielimus  Jacob!  Creagh  27°  Octobris, 

**  Guilielimus  Greatreekes  praedictus  6°  Novembris,    . 
"  Nicholaus  Stretch  iunior  p'dictus  9°  Novembris,      .     .     . 
"  Quidam  degens  in  Lovgguir2  1 2°  Novembris,       .... 
"  Edmundus  0  Donnell  hypocondriacus  16°  Novembris, 

"Jacobus  Walters  21°  Novembris, . 

**  Jacobus  Marorrij  30°  Novembris, 

"  Patricius  Cassij  pro  uxore  3°  Decembris,   ...... 

"  Dionisius  Eonan  6°  Decembris, 

'*  Domina  Morseni  Brij en3  7°  Decembris, 


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2  Lough  Gur,  where  there  are  the  re- 
mains of  a  celebrated  Druid's  circle,  a 
lake  once  filled  with  the  bones  of  the 
Irish  Rein   Deer,   &c.     See    Valiancy's 
"Tract,"    and    Lenihan's    "History;" 
also  Dr.  Carte's  essay  read  to  the  Royal 
Dublin  Society.     Within   the   last   few 
years  very  great  attention  has  been  paid 
to   the    antiquities    in   connexion  with 
Lough  Gur,  under  the  auspices,  princi- 
pally, of  the  landlord,  the  Count  de  Salis, 
and"  his  son,  John  H.  de  Salis,  Esq.,  of 
Hillingdon-place,  Sussex.    To  Mr.  John 
Fitz  Gerald,    of  Holy   Cross    Cottage, 
Lough  Gur,  a  tenant  on  the  estate,  and 
a  highly  intelligent,  active,  and  ener- 
getic  lover   of  antiquities,   very   great 
credit  is  due  for  his  exertions  in  restor- 
ing the   Cir-Gor,   or  circle ;    he  has   a 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  locality,  and 
he  is  very  attentive  to  all  who  visit  it. 

3  This   was  Morine.  or  Matilda  Car- 
roll,   wife   of  Terence  Mac  I  Brien  of 
Arra.     A  tombstone  in  the  old  church- 
yard of  Castletown  Arra,  county  of  Tip- 
perary,  bears  the  following  curious  in- 
scription, which  the  present  writer,  ac- 
companied by  a  feW  friends,  discovered, 
and,  as  far  as   legible,  copied  for  the 


first  time,  in  the  summer  of  1868 : — 


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"Petrus  Nicholai  Creagh  8°  Decembris, 00  3  0 

14  Thomas  o  Donnell  pro  uxore  10°  Decembris,       ....  00  5  0 

"Stephanus  Arthurius  p  se  20°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Ryder  pseudo  Epus  Laonensis1  23°  Decembris,  .  00  5  6 

"  Nicholaus  Loftus  prcedictus  28°  Decembris, 00  6  0 

•'  Dominicus  Vincenti  Creagh  2°  Januarij, 00  10  0 

"  Quidajuuenis  Martini  galviensis2  5°  Januarij,     ....  01  00  0 

"  Lucas  Stretch  1 1°  Januarij, 00  1 1  0 

"  Petrus  Andrea  Creagh  20°  Januarij, 00  10  0 

]  Andrewes  pistor  Anglus  29°  Januarij,     ....  01  00  0 

1  Guilielmus  Martini  Creagh  4°  February, 00  10  0 

'  Margarita  Danielis  Arthuria  9°  Februarij, 00  10  0 

'Genetta  Nyn  Eyne  13°  February, 00  5  0 

4  Robertus  Cromwell3  pro  uxore  16°  februarij,       ....  00  3  0 

'  Jacobus  Stackpoll  cognomento  Pillote  pro  uxore  23°  febrij.  00  10  0 

4  Richardus  Gorgii  Arthurius  pro  uxore  28°  februarij,  .     .  00  6  0 

(  Thomas  Jacobi  \Vhyte  pro  uxore  2°  Martij, 00  7  0 

"Johannes     mcXemarra    de    Daingenbreak4    pro    uxore    a 

phthisi  1  diarrhoea  correpta  11°  Martij, 02  00  0 

]  Starkey5  Anglus  de  Drumeolan  12°  Martij,   ...  00  10  0 

"  Guaiterus  Whyte  Nicholai  20°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"  Nicholaus  Henrici  Whyte  prffldictus  23°  Martij,  1622,      .  01  2  0 

"  Suiiia  honorarioru  huius  prasteriti  anni  est  58'*  7s'    6d' 

pro    quibus    et    casteris    divini    clementiae    subsidiis 

nobis    indignis   conceptis    Omnipotent!    Deo    sit 

honor,   laus  et   gloria  in   seternu.      Amen. 

Anno  Dni  1623. 

"David  Nicholai Roch  28°  Martij,  1623, 00  10  0 

u  Johannes  Skeolan  pro  filia  31°  Martij, 00  8  0 

"Guilielimus  Greatreekes  praedictus  12°  Aprilis,    ....  03  10  0 

"  Georgius  Jacobi  Rochfort  pro  uxore  15°  Aprilis,     ...  00  10  0 

"  Stephanus  Jacobi  Whyte  22°  Aprilis, 00  15  0 

14  Anna  Creagh  uxor  lloberti  Stones  27°  Aprilis,     ....  00  5  0 

'  Nicholaus/aning  pro  sorore  2°  Maij, 00  10  0 

Stephanus  Arthurius  pro  se  8°  Maij 00  10  0 

"  Robertus  Davidis  Ryce  pro  uxore  13  Maij, 00  10  0 

'John  Ryder,  Protestant  Bishop  of  not   far   from  Quin  Abbey,    county  of 

Clare,   and  even  now  is  a  magnificent 

the  families   of  the  Conne-  specimen  of  the  Tudor  style  of  Architec- 

inara  Martins.  ture 

3  This  is  an  old  Irish   name,   some-  »  Starkey    resided     at    Dromoland. 
om  well— now  nearly  extinct.  county  of  Clare,  which  was  not  occupied 
Mac    Namaras,  who   built   so  by  the  O'Briens  until  many  years  after 
any  castles  in  Clare,  nearly  all  held  this  period  ;  they  having  their  residence 
•  own  in  Thomond  up  to  the  time  of  in  the  city  of  Limerick  until  the  reign 
Elizabeth;  they  aro  now  repre-  of  William  III.,  in  which  reign  they  re- 
sented by  Colonel  I- rancis  Mac  Namara,  moved  to    Dromeolan,    or  Dromoland, 
.  L,.,of  Lnmstymon  House.    Dangan-  the  beautifully  situated  castle  of  the 
ack  Castle  is  on  the  Ardsollus  river,  present  Lord  Inchiquin. 


141 

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"  Johannes  Ryderus1  pseudo  Epus  Laonensis  19°  Maij,  .     .  00  10  0 

"  Edwardus  Georgii  Ryce  pro  se  24°  Maij 00  11  0 

"  Nicholaus  Lyllies  pro  uxore  p' dicta  29°  Maij,      ....  00  1 1  0 

"  Daniell  Arthurius  junior  dictus  g  filia  3°  Junij,  .     ...  00     5  0 

"  Eobertus  Queyn2  6°  Junij, 00     3  0 

"  Thomas  Daniell  pro  uxore  12°  Junij, 00  15  0 

1  Joanna  Arthuria  vidua  Georgii  Sexten  15°  Junij,    ...  00     5  0 

'  Stephanus  Thomae  Creagh  pro  uxore  20°  Junij, ....  01  00  0 

4  Johannes  Eyderus  pseudo  Epus  prsedic'  24°  Junij,       .     .  00     6  0 

'  Euisdem  Ryderi  films  27°  Junij, 00   1 1  0 

'  Georgius  Andrewes  pro  uxore  3°  Julij, 01   13  0 

"  Georgius  Bartholomsei  Stretch  6°  Julij, 00  10  0 

"  Patricius  Richardi  Arthurius  9°  Julij, 00  10  0 

"  Michael  Mahowne  1 6°  Julij, 00     5  0 

<  Nicholaus  0  Gavaine3  20°  Julij, 00     6  0 

'  Rory  O  Gavaine  25°  Julij, 00  10  0 

« Quidam  qui  deget  apud  Disshert  27°  Julij, 00   10  0 

'  Susanna  Domina  Richardi  Southwell4  pro  se  2°  Augusti,  .  00  10  0 

'  Robertus  Rogeri  Ryce  pleuriticus  8°  Augusti,    ....  00   10  0 

*  Thomas  Lodge  pro  uxore  13°  Augusti, 00     8  0 

'Robertus  Ryce  p'dictus  17°  Augusti,     .......  00  10  0 

"  Lucas  Stretch  22°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"  Robertus  Ryce  p'dictus  23°  Augusti, 00   10  0 

"Jasper  Woulfe hypocondriacus  "t  in  perineumonia  propen- 

sus  29°  Augusti, 00   10  0 

**  Phillipus  Ronan  prsedictus  1°  Septembris, 01    10  0 

"Petrus  Petri  Creagh  senior  10°  Septembris, 00   11  0 

"  Guilielimus  Greatreekes  p'dictus  20°  Septembris,    .     .     .  03  10  0 

"  Thomas  Harrisius  eques  auratus5^  se  22°  Septembris,  .     .  01    10  0 

i  The  name  is  spelled  Rider  in  Cot-  of  Brian  Boroimhe,  and  ends  at  1643. 

ton's  "  Fasti."    He  wrote,  or  compiled,  2  Quane,  Quin,  or  Coyne,   the  family 

"  The  State  of  the  Diocese  of  Killaloe,"  name  of  the  Earl  of  Dunraven. 

presented    to    his    Majesty's    Commis-  3  O'Gavaine,    or    Gavin    (sometimes 

sioners,  at  Dublin,   1st  July,   1622;    a  spelled  O'Gabain).     The  Gavin  family 

copy  of  which  is  said  to  be  preserved  in  is   represented    now  by  Major   George 

the  Diocesan  Library  of  Cashel.   Cotton  O'Halloran  Gavin,  of  Kilpeacon  Court, 

states  that  it  is   copious,    minute,  and  county  of  Limerick,  M.  P.,  for  the  city 

interesting,  and  deserves  to  be  printed.  of  Limerick;   and  maternal  nephew  of 

He   was  anxious  that  the   Protestant  General  O'Halloran,  and  grand  nephew 

clergy    should    make    tbemselves    ac-  of  Sylvester  O'Halloran,    the   eminent 

quainted   with   the  Irish  language,   in  surgeon  and  historian, 

order  to  the  better  instruction  of  the  4  Sir  Richard  Southwell,  the  brother 

natives.     He  procured  the  restoration  of  Sir  Robert  Southwell,  was  the  man 

of  several  rectories   which    had    been  who  prognosticated  the   pregnancy  of 

alienated  from  the   See  by   his  prede-  Queen  Mary,  and    asserted  the  same, 

cessor  Maurice  Mac  1  Brien  Arra,  the  though    falsely,    in    Parliament.      See 

father  of  Sir  Turlough  MacIBrien,  who  Thorpe's  "Catalogue  of  the  Southwell 

is  buried  at  Inniscaltra  with  his  wife,  MSS.,"  p.  308. 

Eleanor  Butler,  the  daughter  of  Wai-  5  Sir  Thomas  Harris,  of  Cornworthy, 

ter  Earl  of  Ormonde.  His  name  appears  in  Devonshire,  Knt.,  Sergeant  at  Law, 

as  a  Puritan,  in  a  list  of  Bishops  of  Kil-  whose  sister,  Lady  Anne  Southwell,  was 

laloe,  written  in  Irish,  and  preserved  in  maid  of  honour  to  Queen  Elizabeth  :  she 

Rome.     This  list  begins  with  the  period  became  wife  of  Sir  Thomas  Southwell, 


142 

£     s.  d. 

"  Eius  uxor  seu  Domina  Harris  pro  se  24°  Septembris,  .     .  02  C 

-Johannes  Lancaster  p'dictus  30°  Septembris, 

«  Cornelius  O  Dwyer  4°  Octobris, 00     5 

"  Francissus  Britt  9°  Octobris, ni    ?o  S 

"  Geraldus  Marshiale  16°  Octobris, 01   1 

"  Robci  tus  Woulf  pro  filia  22°  Octobris, 00 

"Matrona  Bland  angla  degens  in  Castletowne  28°  Octobris,  01    10  0 

•'  Jacobus  Andre*  Creagh  31°  Octobris,.     .     .     .     .     .     .  0010  0 

"  Jacobus  Sarsfield  pro  uxore  Ellina  Ryce  2°  Novembns,     .  00  10  0 

"  Jacobus  Stackpole  Pillot1  dictus  pro  se  6°  Novembns,      .  00   10 

"  Maria  Bourke  uxor  Johannis  Woulfe  £  se  9°  Novembris,  00  05  0 

"  Jacobus  Stackpoll  pnedictus  15°  Novembris, 0100  0 

"GuilielimusDavidis  Woulfe  20°  Novembris, 00     5 

"  Thomas  O  Donnell  24°  Novembris, 00     5  0 

"  Patricius  Johannes  Woulf  29°  Novembris,      .....  00   10  6 

41  Johannes  Martini  Woulf  pro  uxore  5°  Decembris,  ...  01   00  0 

"  Jacobus  Johannis  Stretch  £  uxore  9°  Decembris,      ...  00  10 

"Andreas  Queyn  15°  Decembris, 00   10  0 

u  Thomas  Loftus  19°  Decembris, 00     6  0 

"Edmundus  Stephani  Roch  23°  Decembris, 00     5  6 

'  Ee  0  Histine  pro  uxore  28°  Decembris, 00     8  0 

1  Catherina  ni  Ronane  9°  January, 00   10  0 

'Johannes  Clayton  anglus  pro  uxore  12°  Januarij,    .     .     .  01   00  0 

•  Robertus  Myeagh2  degens  at  Killaloe  20°  Januarij,       .     .  00   10  0 

'Ellina  Young  22° Januarij, .  00   10  0 

'  Edwardus  Harrisius  prim'  justiciarius  puinciae3  4°  febr.    .  01  00  0 

v  Nicholaus /airing  pro  se  9°  februarij, 00   10  0 

k  Matrona  Wilkinson  pro  amico  15°  februarij, 00  10  0 

k  Johannes  Johannis  Stretch  senator  22°  februarij,     .     .     .  00   10  0 

1  Guilielimus  O  Quonyn  pro  se  24°  februarij, 01      8     2 

1  Matrona  Eyuans  angla  £  filia  28°  februarij, 00  11     0 

'  Franciscus  Britt  p'dictus  |)  uxore  9°  Martij, 06  00     0 

'  Laurentius  Clayton  anglus  <g  uxore  12°  Martij,   ....  01   00  0 

•David  Corny u  senator4  p  se  18°  Mar tij,        01  00     0 

of  Spixworth,  near  Norwich;  Lady  Anne  logue  of  the  Southwell  MSS.,"  pp.  520, 

\vasanexquisitepoetess.     Her  husband  521. 

was  sent  by  King  James  I.  to  Ireland  '  A  pilot,  we  presume,  of  which  there 

to  promote  the  plantation  of  Munster,  were  not  a  few  on  the  Shannon  in  those 

where  he  was  one  of  the  council  to  the  days. 

President  of  that  province,   and  seated  2  This  name  is  frequently  met  in  the 

himself  at  Polylong,   county  of  Cork.  civic    records    of  Limerick ;    in   more 

Sir  Thomas  died  June  12,  1626,  leaving  recent  years    it   was    written   Meade. 

two  daughters,   Elizabeth,  Lady  Dow-  Meade's-quay  is  one  of  the  quays  of  Li- 

dall,  and  Frances,  who  married  William  merick. 

Lenthall,  Esq.,  of  Lenthall,  in  Oxford-  3  Sir  Edward  Harris,  third  Judge  of 

shire,  by  whom  she  had  two  sons,   Sir  the  King's  Bench  in  Ireland,  who  died 

John   Lenthall,   Marshal  of  the  King's  April  4,  1636. 

Bench,  who  married  Bridget,  daughter  *  This  name  held  a  high  place  on  the 
of  Sir  Thomas  Temple  of  Slow  Bucks,  Mayoralty,  and  Bailiffs,  and  Shrivalty 
and  the  famous  William  Lenthall,  Roll  of  Limerick  for  several  years,  corn- 
Speaker  of  the  Long  Parliament,  Master  mencing  in  the  fifteenth  century.  This 
01  the  Rolls,  &c.  See  Thorpe's  ••  Cata-  David  Comyn  was  elected  Mayor,  held 


143 

£  s.  d. 
**  Georgius  Andrewes  pseudo  decanus  p'dictus  p  filio  23° 

Martii, 00  10  0 

"  Guilielimus  Jacob!  Creagh  p  uxore  p'dicta  ab  Hydrope 

uterina  restituta  24°  Martij,  1623, 00  10     0 

"Suma  honorarioru  huius  elapsi  anni  est 

61'*  8s'    Sdt   ster.    pro    quibus    et   omnibus 

caelestis     ubertatis    affluentis     quibus     in- 

opiam     nostram     subleuare     dignatur 

Dns  Deus,  longe  impares  sed  debi- 

tas        referrimus         gratias. 

Anno  Dni  1624. 

14  Johannes  Johannis  Stretch  Senator  28°  Martij.  1624,  .      .  00  10  0 

"  Guilielimus  Greatreekes  p'dictus  9°  Aprilis, 03  0  0 

"  Inuitatus  t  illectus  a  complurimis  magnatibus  comigravi 
Dubliniu  quo  perveni  14°  Die  Aprilis  1624  ubi  medicina 
fseliciter  exercens  quse  sequuntur  cu  laude  consequtus 
sum.1 

"  Vxor  seu  domina  Edwardi/isher  equitis  aurati  20°  Aprilis,  00  1 0  0 

"  Dominicus  Sarsfeeld  Vicecomes  de  Kilmalock  27°  Aprilis,  01  2  0 

"Matrona  Bently  setatis  prouectaa  2°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Famulus  Lancelothi  Baronis  Lowther2  6°  Maij,  .     .     .     .  0011  0 

"  Beniamen  Colume  pro  filio  12°  Maij, .  00  15  0 

"Alis  Kenedy  quse  Domina  Eliot  dicebatur  16°  Maij,      .     .  01  2  0 

"  Alis  Arthur  quae  Matrona  Mappas  dicta  est  22°  Maij, .     .  01  00  0 

"Sr  Galfridus  Galwey  baronetta3  nephriticus  27°  Maij,    .     .  00  10  0 

"  Barbara  Cusak  uxor  Edwardi  Arthurij  2°  Junij,     ...  00  10  0 

"  Patritius  Archibald!  Atchesoni  scotus  9°  Junij, ....  00  10  0 

"  Alis  Barnewall  uxor  Christoph :  Whyte  15°  Junij,  ...  00  15  0 

'*  Rowlandus  Delahoyde  eques  auratus4  20°  Junij,      .     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Walsh  provectse  setatis  24°  Junij, 00  5  0 

"  Margareta  Johannis  Arthur  virgo, 00  10  0 

"Matrona  Sarsfeelde  de  Sarsfeeldstowne  £  filio  7°  Julij, .     .  0010  0 

"  Edwardus  Arthurius  senator  Dubliniensis  12°  Julij,    .     .  01  00  0 

"Vidua  Dillon  degens  in  Proudstoune  15°  Julij,  .     ...  00  15  0 

"  Guilielimus  Scott  pro  prima  uxore  21°  Julij,      ....  00  10  0 

"  Uxor  Bichdfdi  Do wde  29°  Julij, 00  10  0 

the  office  for  one  month,  and  was  de-  citizens  of  Limerick  of  his  time.     It  is 

posed  for  not  taking  the  oath  of  Supre-  he  who  is  mentioned  in  Stafford's  "  Hi- 

macy.     See  Lenihan's  "  History  of  Li-  bernia  Pacata"  as  having  had  a  serious 

merick."  In  "Notes  and  Queries"  there  dispute,  when  Mayor  of  Limerick,  with 

occurs  a  disquisition  on  the   name   of  Care w,  President  of  Munster,  on  account 

Comyn.  of  his  determined  adherence  to  the  prin- 

1  This  visit  to  Dublin  led,  as  will  ap-  ciples  of  his  religion  (the  Catholic),  &c. 
pear,  to  the  subsequent  good  fortune  of  For  full  particulars  of  this  dispute,  and 
Dr.  Arthur.  of  Sir  Geoffrey  Galway,   and  the  Gal- 

2  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  an-  way  monument  in  St.  Mary's  Cathedral, 
cestor  of  Sir  John  Lowther,  first  Lord  Limerick,    see    Lenihan's    "  History  of 
Londsdale.  Limerick,"  &c. 

3  Sir  Geoffrey  Galway,  Bart.,  and  a  4  Moylare   was  the   residence  of  Sir 
lawyer,  was   one   of  the  most  famous  Rowland  Delahoyde. 


144 

£    8.  d. 

"  Georgius  Bodley  pro  uxore  9°  Augusti, 01  00  0 

"  Charolus  /eeld  12°  Augusti, 06     9  0 

"Patritius'Hamlin  pro  nepote  14°  Augusti,  ^    .     ....  00     9  0 
"  Guilielimus    Geraldinus  studiosus  Collegii    Dubliniensis 

18°  Augusti 01  00  0 

"  Maria  Roch  uxor  Johannis  Stanley  24°  Augusti,      ...  01     2  0 
"  Richardus  Geraldinus   clericus  apud  Mr.  Greniham   29° 

Augusti, 00  10  0 

"  Uxor  Johannis  Nolan  quo3  erat  vidua  Mapas  2°  Septembris,  00  1 1  0 

4-  Nicholas  Barry  mercator  8°  Septembris, 00     8  0 

"  Johannes  Talbot  generosus1  12°  Septembris,1 01   00  0 

"  Guilielmus  Dillon  de/lentstowne  16°  Septembris,    .     .     .  00  10  0 
41  Robertus    Kennedy    senator   Dubliniensis    20°    Septem- 
bris,       00  11  0 

"  Kobertus  Colume  mercator  anglus  25°  Septembris,       .     .  00  10  0 

44  Virgo  Browne  29°  Septembris, 00     6  0 

"  Vetus  Matrona  Bysse  pro  nepote  Johanne  4°  Octobris,        .  01  00  0 

"  Uxor  Johannis  Veale  amanuensis  Proregis  8°  Octobris,      .  00     4  0 

"  Alis  Barnevil  pradieta  qua?  matrona  Whyte  10°  Octobris,  00     8  0 
44  Vetus  matrona  Bysse  prsedicta  pro  eodem  nepote  13°  Ocr 

tobris, 00  10  0 

u  Thymotheus  Thomson  clericus  seu  scriba  16°  Octobris,     .  01   00  0 

"  Thomas  Dickson  20°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"quidam  faber  lignareus  21°  Octobris, 00     2  6 

14  Johannes  Bulger  23°  Octobris, 00     5  0 

"  Johannes  Giggines  26°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

44  Maria  Koch  matrona  Stanleij  p'dicta  pro  famulo  29°  Oc- 
tobris,    00  11  0 

"  Quida  degens  apud  Nase  31°  Octobris, 00     4  0 

4  4  Franciscus  Bloundle  eques  Auratus  3°  Novembris,  ...  01     2  0 

"  Christopherus  Brysse  pro  prima  uxore  Maria  Whyte  6°  No.  01  00  0 

4' Franciscus  Bloundle  proadictus  8°  Novembris,     ....  00  11  0 

"  Thomas  Badleo  10°  Novembris, 00     5  0 

4i  Christopherus  Brysse  pro  praadicta  uxore  12°  Novembris,  00  10  0 
41  Christopherus /eelde  pro  uxore  Margarita  Mappas  13°  No- 
vembris,       00     5  0 

44  Robertus  Bysse  scriba  15°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"quidam  degens  apud  Hoath  16°  Novembris, 00     4  0 

"  Albion  Luereth  fecialis  pro  uxore  16°  Novembris,        .     .  01   02  0 

"Uxor  Richard!  Do wde  p'dicta  19°  Novembris,     ....  00     5  0 

41  Albion  Leuereth  pro  uxore  p'dicta  19°  Novembris, .     .     .  00   12  0 

44  Matrona  Browne  23°  Novembris,       00  1 1  0 

4  Dudleus  Northon  eques  auratus  26°  Novembris,       .     .     .  01   00  0 

Christopherus /eelde  p  p'dicta  uxore  29°  Novembris,        .  00     6  0 

Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  29°  Novembris, 01  00  0 

14  Matrona  Cusake  ultra  pontem  degens  3°  Decembris,     .     .  00     8  0 

T  1iKT?isi  ™e7JiJkcly'  is  tho  Sir  John      p-  Median's  «  Fate  and  Fortunes  of  the 

•I  Malahide,  who  is  said  to  have  Earls  of  Tyrone  and  T yrconnell,"  pp. 
)oen  mixed  up  in  the  rebellion  of  Hugh  227-341 .  Sir  John  was  an  ancestor  of 
)  Neill  and  Rory  O  Donnell.  Soe  Rev.  Lord  Talbot  de  Malahide. 


145 

£    s.     d. 

"  David  Tyrry  Corkagiensis  centurio  7°  Decembris,  .  .  .  00  10  0 
"  Qutedam  mulier  degens  citra  pontem  9°  Decembris,  .  .  00  5  0 
"  Patritius  Mapas  Senator  Dubliniensis  9°  Decembris,  .  .  00  10  0 

''Michael  Browne  mercator  12°  Decembris,        01  00     0 

44  Guilielimus  Greatreekes  p'dictus  15°  Decembris,    .     .     .     01  00     0 

"Johannes  Queyn  mercator  18°  Decembris, 00     5     0 

"Robertus  Bysse  scriba  p'dictus  p  famulo  18°  Decembris,  .  00  10  0 
"Moriartus  0  Dowline  de  Athey  hypocundriachus  24°  Dec.,  02  10  0 
u  Patritius /arsfeeld  de  Comitatu  Kildare  paralisi  correptus 

27°  Dec., 00   14     0 

14  Thomas  yietcher   degens   apud   Newrie   in  Vltonia  29° 

Decemb., 00  10     0 

"  Accersitus  su  ad  Domina  Amey  Conwey  vidua  Fulki 
Conwey  quse  degebat  apud  Lysnagearugh  in  Vltonia 
quse  p  se  1  ancilla  honoraria  sua  Alisia  Tutesbury  dedit 

mini  20°  Janua., 20  00     0 

"  Symon  Eichardson  ibidem  degens  22°  Januarij,  .  .  .  00  10  Q 
**  Sr  Arthur  M°  Ennis  Vicecomes  de  lueagh  hepatis  Discra- 

sia  calida  laborans  25°  Januarij, 01  00     0 

"  Edmundus  O  Downegaine  Doctor  rt  electus  Episcopus 
Dunensis  Dysenteria  a  retorrida  bile  laborans  27°  Ja- 
nuarij,    00  10  0 

"  Thomas  /letcher  p'dictus  apud  Newrey  29°  Januarij, .     .     00  10     0 

"Ifatrona  Whyte  de  Dunedalke,  2°  februarij, 00   10     0 

"  Thomas  Whyte  de  Warde  pthisicus  9°  februarij,     ...     01  00     0 
"  Gualterus  Geraldinus  mercator  10°  februarij,      ....     00     6     0 
"  Duodecimo   februarij   discessi  Dublinio  reuersus  Lynlicu 
visurus  uxorem,   matre,  t  familia  ubi  comoratus  su  ad 
primu  die  Aprilis  subsequentis  et  obtinui  a  diuersis  asgris 
ad  24m  Martij  1624, 03   10     0 

"  Suma  honorarioru  huius  elapsi  ani  est  861'  9s'  ster., 

pro   quibus  et  singulari  sua  dementia  erga  me 

qua  dignatus  est  me  ignotuni  t  peregrinum 

cunctis  gratu  %  acceptabileni  reddere  in 

provincia  aliena,  innumeras  gratias  Deo 

Omnipotenti    refero   ex   animo. 

Anno  Dm  1625 

"  A  24°  Martij  ad  fine  illius  mensis  Lynlici  obtinui,  ...  03  05  0 
"  Ex  primo  Aprilis  afio  1625  profectus  sum  Dubliniu  ubi 

6°  Aprilis  uxor  Christiani  Borr  belgas  dedit  mihi,  .  .  00  15  0 

"  Thomas  Jankson  scriba  8°  Aprilis, 00  1 0  0 

"  Maria  Roch  matrona  Stanleii  p  p'dicto/amulo  10°  April,  .  00  5  6 
**  Christianus  Borr  mercator  belgicus  Dublinij  degens 

16°  April, 01  00  0 

"  Adam  Bechaine  j>  filio  17°  Aprilis, 00  9  0 

"  Eius  Mater  uidua  Bechaine  p  se  26°  Aprilis, 00  5  6 

14  Jacobus  Byrrin  pro  uxore  29°  Aprilis, 00  5  0 

'4  quida  ruri  degens  pro  inspectione  eius  vrinae  29°  Aprilis,  00  2  6 

41  Chriatianus  Borr  p'dictus  p  se  8°  Maij, 01  00  0 


146 

£    s.    d. 
"Phillipus  Hore  senior  de  Kilshaglane  12°  Maij,    ....     00  12     0 

"  Adam  Bechaine  p'dictus  pro  se  13°  Maij, 00  10     0 

44  Domina  Amey  Conwey  praedicta  pro  sua  nepote  Johanne 

Borne  hypochundriaco  15°  Maij 03  00     0 

"Quidam  Russell  ruridegens  17°  Maij, 00     2     6 

"  Johannes  Stanleii  senior  pro  se  20°  Maij, 01  00     0 

"  Domina  Amey  Conwey  p'dicta  pro  se  24°  Maij,  ....  02  00  0 
41  Georgius  Bodly  p'dictus  g  filio  Thoma  27°  Maij,  ...  00  6  0 
44  Genetta  ancilla  Dominse  Sexten  pro  se  28°  Maij,  .  .  .  00  5  6 
4«  Phillipus  Hore  p'dictus  pro  genero  suo  Bath.  29°  Maij,  .  00  10  0 

"Barnevill  paralyticus  citra  po tern  30°  Maij, 04  00     0 

44  Guilielimus  Haly  Senator  Lymicensis  cholera  morbo  peri- 

clitatus  1  liberatus  31°  Maij, 00  10     0 

"  Paulus  DufF  mercator  1°  Junij, 01  00     0 

"  Isrnael  CJynser  3°  Junij, 00     5     6 

"  Kolandus  Reynalds  belgicus  5°  Junij, 03  00     0 

44  Tobias  belgicus  7°  Junij, 00     5     6 

"Moriartus  O  Dowline  de  Athey  p'dictus  10°  Junij,  .  .  .  02  00  0 
"  Georgius  Smyth  de  Athey  pro  uxore  12°  Junij,  .  .  .  00  15  0 

"  llichardus  Dowde  pro  se  15°  Junij, 01  00     0 

41  Maria /ish  pro  ancilla  sua  17°  Junij, 00   10     0 

"  Lewis  de  Nase  24°  Junij, 00     5     6 

44  Edwardus  Dowdall  de  Droghedaha  mercator  27°  Junij,  .  02  00  0 
44  Christinas  Borr  p'dictus  pro  nauclero  batauo  1°  Julij,  ..0120 

44  Hollywood  de  Tartaine  pro  uxore  14°  Julij, 00     5     6 

"Jacobus  Browne  scriba  16°  Julij, 02  00     0 

"  Henricus  Gerraldinus  Anasarticus  24°  Julij,  ....  02  10  0 
'  Domina  Roper  pro  ancilla  honoraria  27°  Julij,  ....  00  10  0 

4  Chris topherus  Whyte  pro  servo  2°  Augusti, 00  10     0 

'  Eius  uxor  Alis  Barneville  p'dicta  6°  Augusti,      ....     00     4     4 

4  Edmundus  llewes  pro  uxore  12°  Augusti, 00  10     0 

4  Matrona  Russell  vidua  p  se  17°  Augusti, 00     5     0 

1  Christopherus  Tankard  pro  se  23°  Augusti, 00     3     0 

*  Quidam  degens  ruri  25°  Augusti, 00     4     6 

'  Edmundus  Hewes  p'dictus  29°  Augusti, 00     5     6 

'  30°  Augusti  profectus  sum  Lyrnicum  ubi  apud  uxore 
comoratus  ad  Decimum  diem  insequentis  Martij  %  a  non- 
nullis  aegris  interea  temporis  obtinui  £21  85.  6d.,  .  .  21  8  6 
"  Tune  autem  Dns  Jacobus  Vssherus  doctor  t  pseudo-primas 
Ardmachanus,  ex  Anglia  nuper  reuersus,  ubi  diu  cu 
morbo  graui  reluctatus,  cui  profligando  regiorum  medi- 
corum  operam  sufhis  expensis  imploratam  nequicqam 
expertus,  ad  me  accersitum  misit.  Perueni  ad  eum  Drogh- 
edahoe,  in  sua  aula  comorantem,  22°  Die  Martij  1625. 
Deinde  audita  ipsius  relatione,  t  perspectis  clarissimoru 
medicorum  rescriptis,  et  serio  perpensis  symptomatibus 
qua)  per  totius  morbi  historia  oriebantur ;  ex  his  mini 
videbar  explorata  habuisse  ancipitis  t  indies  inualaesen- 
tis  morbi  causam,  hactenus  complures  viros  clarissimos 
latentem ;  qua  ubi  facto  coniecturse  mese  Iseui  periculo 
perfecta  consequtum  me  fuisse  cognoui,  confidenter  eius 


147 

£     s.     d. 

curam  in  me  suscepi ;  nee  me  vsquam  spes  /efellit. 
Huius  grauis  %  contumacis  morbi  regiorum  t  clarissimoru 
Angliae  medicoru  opera  eludentis  cura,  in  tarn  eminenti 
t  proper  eruditione  conspicuo  homine,  me  inter  Anglos 
(quibus  catholicse  religionis  causa  exosus  eram)  celebrem 
%  gratu  reddidit. 

"Suma  honorarioru  huius  preteriti  ani  est    £61   5s.  4.d. 

pro  quibus  et  cseteris  beneficijs  qua?  de  thesauris  muni- 

ficentise  diuinsB  imrneriti  indies  suscipimus,  me- 

ritas  sed  longe  impares  gratias  sumo  Deo  bo- 

noru    omniu    largitori   rependimus. 

Anno  Dni  1626 
"  Guilielmus  Hilthon  Judex  curiaa  Eegiaru  facultatu   pro 

uxore  sua  Dni  Primatis  sorore  26°  Marti'i, 01   00     0 

u  Quida  mercator  Pontanensis  Desh  cognominatus  2°  Ap.,    .     00   10     0 

"Justiciarus  Mayard  pro  uxore  3°  Aprilis,, 01   00     0 

"  Christianus  Borr  p'dictus  pro  uxore  5°  Aprilis,  ...  01  2  0 
"  Sr  Christopherus  Shiptorp  Justiciarius2  7°  Aprilis,  .  .  01  00  0 
"  Phrebe  Challiner  uxor  Primatis  pro  se  9°  Aprilis,  ...  01  00  0 
"  Vetus  Domina  Hoath  nupta  tune  Sr  Eoberto  Newcomen 

11°  Apr., 01     2     0 

"  Sr  Johannes  Vachaine  de  Londonderry  12°  Aprilis,       .     .     01   00     0 

"  Eadem  domina  Hoath  p'dicta  13°  Aprilis, 00  10     0 

"  14°  Aprilis  concomitatus  sum  Dmn  Primatem  in  insula 
Lambeij1  dictam,  ubi  remoti  a  turba  visitantium,  incu- 
buimus  gnauitur  t  vacauimus  curse  t  profligationi  con- 
tumacissimi  morbi  ad  8m  diem  mensis  Junij  subsequetis : 
tune  aute  euicto  morbo,  T>  ipso  pristine  sanitati  resti- 
tute prseter  compluriu  expectatione,  reuersi  sum9  Dub- 
liniu,  ubi  a  Proregi  t  caateris  regni  Ordinibus  nobis 
obuia  euntibus,  honorifice  suscepti  fuimus  9°  Junij. Tune 
ego  Proregi  Domino  Vicecomiti  faulkland  indaganti  con- 
silium  profectionis  nostra3  in  illam  Insulam,  t  totius 
morbi  historiam,  et  in  quibus  Eegij  medici  errauerint,  ita 
philosophice  exposui,  ut  abunde  sibi  satisfactum  fuisse 
ingenue  fateretur;  t  omne  pristine  inuidise  t  maleuo- 
lentise  ansam  a  me  procul  propelleret.  Et  exinde  me 
sibi  t  charissimis  suis  omnibus  in  medicu  assumpsit. 
Dns  Primas  pro  impensa  mea  opera  14°  Junij  dedit 

mihi,3 51  00     0 

"Moriartus  ODowline  de  Atheij  p'dictus  19°  Junij, .     .     .     01  00     0 

1  Lambey  belonged  to  the  Ussher  fa-       Privy  Council  of  the  province  of  Mun- 
mily.    For  a  curious  story  about  Ussher       ster,  and  died  October  2,  1636,  aged  63 
and  Lambey,  see  D' Alton's  "Co.  Dublin."       years.  She  wrote  a  poetical  epistle,  con- 

2  Sir  Christopher  Sibthorpe  wrote  a  sisting  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-one 
4to  book  "against  Popery."  Lady  Anne  lines,   to   Bernard  Adams,  Protestant 
Southwell,  on  the  death  of  her  husband,  Bishop  of  Limerick  from  1604  to  1636. 
Sir  Thomas,  married  Henry  Sibthorpe,  3  These  details  are  all  translated  in 
Serjeant-Major,    and    member  of   the  Lenihan's  «'  History  of  Limerick," 


148 


£    s.    d. 


"  18°  Junij  discessi  Dublinio,  reuersurus  Ly&ieG  ubi  co- 
raoratus  sum  ad  12m  diem  subsequentis  Novembris  et 
interea  temporis  nb  ffigris  diuersis  consequtus  sum  £15 
18s.  2d.i  et  postea  profectus  sum  Dubliniu  ubi  quse 

sequuntur  adeptus  sum,  .  .          15182 

"Johns  decanus  Casselliensis1  16°  Nouembris, 00  11     0 

"Sr  Edwardus  fitz  Harris  baronetta  18°  Nouembris,  .  .  00  10  0 
"  Georgius  Bourk  Limffiicensis  mercator  4°  Decembris,  .  00  5  0 

"Patritius  Mapas  prnedictus  7°  Decembris, 00  1 1     0 

<•' Christopherus  Whijte  p'dictus  9°  Decembris,  ....  00  10  0 
"  Guilieliinus  Greatreekes  p'dictus  7°  Decembris,  pro  famulo,  00  1 1  0 
"Tarpoll  de  Droghedaha  musicus  18°  Decembris,  ...  00  5  0 
"  Quidain  Delahoyde  Drohedahensis  mercator  pthisicus 

22°  Decembris, 01   00     0 

"Thomas   Browne   gener,   Johanis   Chijvers  iurisperiti    1° 

Januarij, 02  00     0 

"Dns  Primas  Vssher  procdictus7°  Januarij, 01  00     0 

"  Richardus  Bryse  senator  Drohedahensis  a  dissenteria  liber  - 

atus  practer  spem  complurium  10°  Januarij,      ....     02  00     0 
"  Ellin  falloun  De  Nourraghbeg  in  Comitatu  Kildar'  vidua 

a  morbo  diuturno  1  molesto  liberata  9°  februarij,       .     .     05  00     0 

"Jacobus  Henrici  Geraldinus  10°  februarij, 00  10     0 

"  Jacobus  Edmundi  Byrrin  10°  februarij, 00     5     0 

"  Georgius  Detionish2  senator  Dublinensis  pro  uxore  hijdrope 

detenta  ob  intempestiua  lochioru  alboru  a  partu  sup- 

pressionem  13°  februarij, 01  00     0 


'  This  was  Lewis  Jannes  (called 
Jones  by  Cotton)  a  native  of  Monmouth- 
shire, Wales,  educated  at  Oxford ;  he 
was  presented  on  June  16,  1607.  He  had 
leased  the  revenues  of  his  deanery  to  a 
son  of  Archbishop  Miler  Magrath,  ac- 
cording to  the  Report  of  the  Regal  Visi- 
tors of  1615.  He  was  recommended  by 
Archbishop  Ussher  to  Bishop  Laud  in 
1629,  as  a  fit  person  to  succeed  to  the 
Archbishopric  of  Cashel,  then  vacant, 
being  sixty-nine  years  old,  twenty-two 
of  which  he  was  Dean.  He  restored  the 
cathedral,  and  established  a  choir  in 
Cashel,  which  before  his  time  had  been 
quite  extinguished.  The  recommenda- 
tion did  not  prevail ;  but  Dean  Jannes 
was  raised  to  the  bishopric  of  Killaloe 
soon  afterwards,  viz.,  in  1633.  His 
name  appears  as  a  Puritan  in  the  Irish 
list  of  Bishops  preserved  at  Rome.  See 
supra,  note  ',  p.  141.  He  reached  the  age 
of  eighty- six  years,  and  two  of  his  sons 
became  bishops.  See  Cotton's  "Fasti." 
The  family  of  bishop  Jahnnes  appears 
to  have  continued  connected  with  Kil- 
laloe for  many  years.  A  gentleman  of 
the  name  of  Richard  Janns  was  Register 
of  the  Consistorial  Court  of  that  diocese 


in  1773.  I  have  before  me  an  adminis- 
tration license  signed  by  him,  in  his  ex- 
cellent  handwriting.  In  the  nave  of  the 
Cathedral  Church  of  Killaloe,  a  mural 
monumental  slab  of  white  marble  con- 
tains the  following  inscription  : — 


Sacred 
to  the  Memory  of 

Frances 

daughter  of  Richard  Jannes  Esq 
of  Killaloe  and  Cragleigh 

near  Ennis 
who  died  27th  February  1846 

aged  88  years. 

This  tablet  is  erected  by 

Her  nephew  Captain  Charles  Jannes 


Richard,  we  see  from  this  tablet,  wrote 
his  name  "Jannes." 

2  The  Devenishes  of  Castle  Devenish, 
county  of  Westmeath,  are  an  ancient 


149 

£   a.   a. 

"  Richardus  Dowdes  p'dictus  pro  farnulo  16°  februarij,  .  .  00  6  0 
"Stephanus  Edmundi  Sexten  iurisperitus  ex  hepatis  con- 

tumaci  et  obscura  obstructions  hydropicus  t  Ictericus 

factus  17°  februarij, 01  00  0 

11  Georgius  Doeuinish  p  praedicta  uxore  18°  februarij,  .  .  05  00  0 

"Georgius  Bodleij  p'dictus  p  fiiio  Thoma  23°  februarij,  .  00  10  6 

"Guilielimus  Scott  p'dictus  £  matre  27°  februarij,  ...  00  10  0 

"  Jdem  p  filia  variolis  detenta  3°  Martij 00  5  0 

"Edwardus  Arthurius  senator  pro  uxore  Barbara  12° 

Martij, 03  00  0 

"  Sr  Gualterus  Copinger  pro  famulo  13°  Martij,  ....  00  5  0 
"  Sr  Thomas  Roper  Vicecomes  Baltinglas  pro  uxore  poda- 

grica  19°  Martij, 02  00  0 

"Idem  pro  eadem  23°  Martij,  1626, 00  10  0 

Suma  honorariorum  huius  elapsi    a  n  i   est 

£105  6s.  8d.  ster.  pro   quibus  t  casteris    donis 

quibus  necessitatibus  nostris  subvenit,  quantas 

tenuitas  nostra  fert,  Deo  inexhausto  bonoru 

fonti     gratias     offerimus. 

Ano  Dni  1627. 

"Guilielimus  Higgins  £  uxore  28°  Martij  1627,  ....  00  10  0 
"Thomas  Johannis  Arthurius  p  famulo  febricitante  31° 

Martij,  00  10  0 

"  Quida  citra  pontem  4°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne1,  in  tabe  lapsus  a  ferino  Catharrho 

in  pulmones  delabente  eos<j  exulcerante,  9°  Aprilis,  .  .  00  10  0 

"Matrona  Richards  vidua  12°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  p'dictus  14°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"Matrona  Richards  prdicta  17°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  p'dictus  19°  Aprilis, 00  1 1  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  p'dictus  24°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Richards  p'dicta  23°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  p'dictus  25°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Thomas  Casshill  scriba  |>  uxore  per  tres  integros  menses  mel- 

ancholica  aypvTrvoia  [sic]  laborante  t  restituta  28°  Aprilis,  0110  0 

"  Uxor  Christopher!  Whyte  p'dicta  p  filio  29°  Aprilis,  .  .  00  5  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  p'dictus  1°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tutchborne  p'dictus  3°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  p'dictus  5°  Maij, 00  10  0 

family  of  that  county.  Their  burial  Ireland.  The  grandson  of  this  gentle- 
place  is  in  St.  Mary's  Church,  Athlone,  man  was  created  a  Baronet,  and  after- 
where  the  tombs  of  the  family  with  ar-  wards  elevated  to  the  Peerage  of  Ire- 
morial  bearings,  &c.,  may  be  seen.  land  in  17 15,  as  Baron  Ferrard,  of  Fer- 
1  Sir  Henry  Titchborne.  Burke  rard,  in  the  county  of  Louth,  a  dignity 
(John),  in  the  "  General  and  Heraldic  that  expired  with  himself.  Burke  must 
Dictionary,"  &c.  (1830,  p.  769),  states  be  in  error  when  he  asserts  that  Sir 
that  Sir  Henry  was  engaged  against  the  Henry  died  in  1621,  as  Dr.  Arthur's 
rebels  in  Ireland,  temp.  James  the  First,  Fee  Book  proves  that  he  attended  him 
and  founded  a  branch  of  the  family  in  in  1627,  and  afterwards. 


150 

£     s.  d. 

"  Jacobus  Byrrin  p'dictus  puxore  6°  Maij, 00     5  0 

"Domma  Anna  Baltinglas  p'dicta  8°  Maij, 0100 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  p'dictus  10°  Maij, 

••  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  p'dictus  12°  Maij 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  p'dictus  14°  Maij, 

"Sr  Robertus  Newcomen  senior  16°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Sr  Robertus  Newcomen  p'dictus  17°  Maij, 00 

"  S'  Henricus  Tuchborne  p'dictus  17°  Maij, 00 

"  Sr  Henricus  p'dictus  19°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Leynch  sutor  20°  Maij, 00     5  0 

"Sr  Henricus  p'dictus  22°  Maij, 

"  Sr  Robertus  Newcomen  p'dictus  24°  Maij, 00   10  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  p'dictus  25°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Vetus  Matrona  Brysse  [sic]  p'dicta   p   nepote  Johanne 

p'dicto  26°  Maij, 00     7  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  p'dictus  28°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Dominus  Henricus  /aulkland  prorex   pro  filio  primoge- 

nito  30°  Maij, 02  00  0 

"Idem  prorex  pro  eodem  filio  31°  Maij, 01   00  0 

"Johannes  Veldon  iurisperitus  p  nepote  Deesh  1°  Junij,     .  00     5  0 

"Idem  prorex  p  eodem  filio  1°  Junij, 01  00  0 

"Matrona  Orpin  pro  se  2°  Junij, 00     8  0 

"  Idem  prorex  pro  eodem  filio  3°  Junij, 02  00  0 

"  Christopherus  Whyte  p'dictus  p  filio  4°  Junij,    ....  00  10  0 

"Idem  prorex  p  eodem  filio  4°  Junij, 01  00  0 

"Idem  prorex  p  p'dicto  suo  filio  5°  Junij, 01  00  0 

"  Idem  prorex  p  p'dicto  nepote  8°  Junij, 01  00  0 

"  Doctor  Robertus  Vssher  p  ancilla  9°  Junij, 00     7  0 

"  Idem  prorex  p  nepote  1  filio  p'dictis  sanitati  restitutis 

10°  Junij, 03  00  0 

"Thomas  Cashell  p  p'dicta  14°  Julij  [sic]  1627,     ....  01  00  0 

"  Margarita  Mar  tine  uxor  Jacobi  Duff  15°  Junij,  ....  00     5  0 

"Robertus  Newcome  iunior  16°  Junij, 00  10  6 

"Idem  pro  se  16°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  Sir  Henricus  Tuchborne  p'dictus  |)  filio  Beniamen  ab  ob- 

structionibus  visceru  t  mesenterij  liberate  20°  Junij,     .  02     4  0 

"Jacobus  Byrrin  p'dictus  p  uxore  22°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  Domina  Baltinglass  p'dicta  p  filio  Johanne  24°  Junij,   .     .  01  00  0 

"  Moriartus  O  Dowlin  p'dictus  29°  Junij, 01  00  0 

"Jacobus  Duff  nephriticus  31°  Junij, 00   10  0 

"Domina  Pattiplace  p  se  2°  Julij, 00   10  0 

"  Johannes  Veale  amanueusis  proregis  p  filio  4°  Julij,     .     .  0010.0 

"Johannes  pseudo  decanus  Cassheliensis  p'dictus  6°  Julij,  .  00  10  6 

"  Jacobus  Berminghame  p  se  8°  Julij, 01     2  0 

"Matrona  Newcomen  uxor  Thorna?  10°  Julij, 00  10  0 

"Margareta  Vssher  virgo  pro  se  12°  Julij, 00  10  0 

44  Georgius  Deuenish  senator  p  uxore  hydrope  Anasartica 

correpta  ab  intempestiva  lochioru  alboru  a  partu  sup- 

pressione  ex  concilio  cuiusda  ignaraj  obstetricis  14°  Julij,  05  00  0 

4<  Matrona  Newcomen  prsedicta  16°  Julij, 00  10  0 


151 

£    5.  d. 

"  Margareta  Vssher  p'dicta  laborans  debilitate  oculoru  ex  su- 

perfluis  humoribus  serosis  in  eos  delabentibus  17°  JuL,      00  10  6 

"Matrona  Newcomen  prsedicta  19°  Julij, 00  10  0 

"  Morganus  O  Bryen  famulus  Mri.  Wiseman  21°  Julij,    .     .     00  11  0 

"  Guilielimus  Hilthon  p'dictus  23°  Julij, 01  00  0 

"  Vicecomes  Henricus  faulkland  prorex  lienis  obstruction! 

contumaci  obnoxius  27°  Julij, 10  00  0 

"  Margarita  Ysher  prgedicta  29°  Julij, 00  10  0 

"Guilielimus  Greatreekes  prsedictus  31°  Julij,       ....     02  10  0 
"  Johanes  Southwell  tonsillaru  repentina  inflamatione  pene 

strangulatus  3°  Augusti, 10  00  0 

"  Alisia  Barnevil  uxor  Christopheri  Whyte  p'dict'  5°  Aug.,      00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Southwell  p'dictus  7°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

'Domina  Thomse  Rhadrom  equitis  9°  Augusti,      ....     00  10  0 

'  Mr  Powley  febricitans  10°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

'  Jacobus  By rrin  praedictus  p  uxore  1 2°  Augusti,       .     .     .     00  10  0 

'Domina  Anthonij  Brabazon  equitis  £  filia  14°  Augusti,   .     00  10  0 

'Doctor  Robertus  Vssher,  p'dictus  16°  Augusti,    ....       0  10  0 
"  18°  die  Augusti  1627  decessi  Dublinio  Lynlicu,  ubi  com- 
moratus  fui  ad  I6m  die  Octobris  t  a  nonullis  aegris  interea 
temporis  obtinui  £15  9s.  6d.  ster.     Deinde  reversus  Dub- 

liniu  adeptus  sum  quse  sequuntur, 1596 

"  Dfis  Baltinglass  <g  sua  uxore  23°  Octobris, 04  00  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  «p  filio  Beniamen  p'dicto  26°  Oct.        00  10  0 

"  Idem  Henricus  £  eodem  28°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Idem  Henricus  p  eodem  29°  Octobris, 0  10  0 

"Mr  Adams  pro  uxore  31°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Margareta  Vssher  Domina  Beuerly  Newcome  3°  Noveb.    .     00  10  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  £  p'dicto  filio  5°  Novembris,     .     .     00  10  0 

"  Mr  Weary  mercator  Scotus  7°  Novembris, 00     8  0 

"  Domina  Newcomen  p'dicta  8°  !N"ovembris, 00  10  0 

u  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  ^  p'dicto  filio  10°  Novembris,      .     0010  0 

"Mr  Adams  p'dictus  £  uxore  p'dicta  12°  Novembris,      .     .     00   10  0 

11  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  £  eodem  filio  13°  Novemb.,  .     .     .     00  10  0 

"  Mr  Barringthon  15°  Novembris, 00   10  0 

"  Sr  Carolus  Coute1  senior  a<ypv7rwa  \sic\  sine  febre  ad  in- 

saniam  fere  vexatus  1 80  Novembris, 02  00  0 

"Edwardus  Arthurius   senator  Dubliniensis  nephritic?  20° 

Nov., 00  11  0 

"  Symon  Esmonds  pro  nepote  23°  Novembris, 00     5  0 

"  Sussana  citra  pontem  23°  Novembris, 00     2  6 

"  Johannes  Southwell  p'dictus  pro  se  25°  Novembris,       .     .     01  00  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tuchborne  5  filio  p'dicto  27°  Novembris,       .     00   10  0 

"  Nathaniell  Cathelin  £  uxore  30°  Novembris,       ....     00  11  0 

1  This  is  the  same  Sir  Charles  Coote,  of  Owen  Roe  O'Neill.  He  was  the 
whose  exploits  in  the  Great  Rebellion  first  settler  in  Ireland  of  the  family,  and 
of  1641  are  but  too  well  known,  and  the  immediate  ancestor  of  the  noble 
whose  terrible  death  by  murder  is  de-  houses  of  Coote,  Earls  of  Mountrath, 

scribed  in  the  MS.  in  the  Library  of  and  Coote,  Lords  Castle  Coote,  both 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  called  "Apho-  titles  now  extinct.  He  is  represented 
rismical  Discovery  of  Treasonable  Fac-  by  Sir  C.  Coote,  of  Ballyfin,  Queen's 
tion,"  &c.,  ascribed  to  the  secretary  County. 


152 

£     s.  d. 

»  Sr  Carolus  Coute  p'dictus  4°  Decembris, 02  00  0 

"  Mr  Barringthon  p'dictus  5°  Decerabris,      .'..... 

"  Matrona  Meryweather  7°  Decembris, 

"Moriartus  Bowline  p'dictus  9°  Decembris 0010  0 

I  Matrona  Meryweather  p'dicta  11°  Decembris,      .... 
1  Sr  Gaulterus  Copinger  p  famulo  14°  Decembris,  .... 

'  M'  Barringthon  p'dictus  14°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

'Domina  Baltinglas  p'dicta  p  filio  Johanne  16°  Decembris,  . 

«Mr  Barringthon  p'dictus  18°  Decembris, 0010 

'  Sr  Carolus  Coute  p'dictus  20°  Decembris, 02  00 

'  Henricus  Crafton  p  famulo  23°  Decembris, 00     5 

II  Domina  Baltinglas  pro  p'dicto  filio  23°  Decembris,    ...  00  10  0 
"  Robertus  Meredith  p  filia  Greisell  24°  Decembris,     ...  00   10  0 
"  Matrona  Thomsc  Newcomen  p'dicta  29°  Decembris,  .     .     .  00   10  0 

"Comitissa  de  Tyrconnell1  5°  Januarij,          02     0  0 

"  Sr  Johannes  Vachane  eques  p'dictus  9°  Januarij,  .     ...  00   10  0 

"  Matrona  Meryweather  p'dicta  14°  Januarij, 00  1  0  0 

"  Comitissa  de  Tyrconnell  p'dicta  20°  Januarij,        .     ,     .     .  02  00  0 

"  Quidii  ruri  degens  24°  Januarij, 00     2  6 

"  Margarita  Johafiis  Arthur  nupta  Terentio  Cochlaine2  29°  Ja.,  00  1 1  0 

"  Matrona  Greenhame  citra  pontem  p  ancilla  2°  Februarii,  .  00  05  0 

1  Comittissa  Tyrconnell  p'dicta  9°  februarij, 02  00  0 

'  Margarita  Arthur  at  Cochlaine  15°  februarij,       .     .     .     .  00  11  0 

*  Matrona  Greinhame  p'dicta  p  eade  ancilla  16°  februarij,     .  00     5  0 

'  Stephanus  Sexten  p'dictus  20°  februarij, 01    10  0 

'  Dominicus  faning  p'dictus  28°  februarij, 00  11  0 

"  Comittissa  Tyrconnell  p'dicta  4°  Martij, 01      6  0 

"  Henricus  Vicecomes/aulkland  Prorex  p'dictus  9°  Martij,  10  00  0 

'  Guilielimus  Brabazon  Comes  Midiae  15°  Martij,  .     ...  01   00  0 

'  Gcorgius  Bodley  mercator  p'dictus  18°  Martij,    .     .     .     .  00  10  0 

'  Comes  Midiae  p'dictus  podagricus  20°  Martij,       ....  01   00  0 

'Idem  Comes  21°  Martij, 01  00  0 

'Matrona  Dillon  22°  Martij, 00     6  6 

'Comittissa  Tyrconnell  p'dicta  23°  Martij, 02  00  0 

'Domina  Johannis  Bruerton  23°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Beyss  vidua  mater  Johannis  Bey ss  24°  Martij,     .  00  10  0 

1  Sec  "  The  Fate  and  Fortunes  of  the  the  estate  of  Cartown,  County  Kildare, 
Earls  of  Tyrconnell  and  Tyrone,"  by  the  and  was  created  a  baronet  of  Ireland, 
Rev.C.  P.Meehan,M.  R.  I.  A.  This  lady  4th  February,  1622,  was  a  scion  of  the 
•was  a  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  House  of  Malahide.  He  married  Alison, 
and  married,  after  O'Donnell's  death,  daughter  of  John  Netterville,  of  Castle- 
Nicholas  Barnwall.  In  Sir  Bernard  bar,  County  Meath  ;  he  died  16th  March, 
Burke's  Extinct  Peerages  of  Ireland,  we  1633,  leaving  issue  Robert  (Sir),  of  Car- 
find  the  Tyrconnell  creations  in  the  fol-  .town,  Bart.,  who  married  Grace,  daugh- 
lowing  order :_  ter  of  George  Calvert,  Lord  Bateman. 
Tyrconnell,  1603,  O'Donnell.  2  See  Curry's  "MSS.  Materials"  for 
1622,  Talbot.  a  dedication  to  Terence  M'Coghlani(then 
1663,  Fitzwilliam.  Lord  of  Delvin),  dated  1627,  of  a  trans- 
1685,  Talbot.  lation  of  the  Annals  of  Clonmacnoise, 
1689,  Talbot.  by  his  relative,  Connell  M'Geoghagan. 
1718,  Brownlow.  The  original  of  the  M'Coghlans'  pedi- 
1761,  Carpenter.  gree  is  given  in  Professor  Curry's  Ap- 
William  Talbot  (1622),  who  acquired  pendix. 


153 

£     s.  d. 

"  Domina  Breuerthon  p'dicta  24°  Martij 00  10  0 

"  Omnia  ses?c'  elapso  hoc  ano  accepta  pervenerunt  ad  sum- 
ma  £140  3s.  Od.  ster.  pro  quibus  et  aliis  omnibus 
subsidiis   de   thesauris   suse    munificentige   nobis 
elargitis  nos  nostra^  omnia  sumo  Deo 
vouemus  ex  animo. 

Anno  Dni  1628. 

"  Domina  Baltinglas  p'dicta  pro  filia  26°  Martij   ano  Dni 

1628, 01  00  0 

"  Domina  Morison  ejus  soror  £  se  28  Martij, 01    00  0 

"  Comes  Midise  Brabazon  p'dictus  30  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Greinham  p'dicta  p  famulo  1°  Aprilis,   ....  00     5  0 

"  Sr  Johannes  Breuerthon  pro  uxore  sua  p'dicta  6°  Aprilis,  01  00  0 

"  Comes  Midise  p'dictus  7°  Aprilis, 01   00  0 

"  Vidua  Petitte  9°  Aprilis, 00  11  0 

"  Comes  Midice  p'dictus  11°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

"  Sr  Johannes  Breuerthon  p  uxore  p'dicta  14°  Aprilis,    .     .  01   00  0 

"  Sr  Thomas  Nugent  baronett  £  se  1 8°  Aprilis,       ....  01  00  0 

"  Richardus  Doude  p'dictus  21  Aprilis, 00     5  0 

"Anna  Neill  Ancilla  Matronse  Vssher  21°  Aprilis,     ...  00     5  0 

"William  Hamlin  de  Drohedaha  21°  Aprilis, 00     5  0 

"  Sr  Guilielmus  Stewart  pro  se  25°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

"  Michahell  Dweyn  de  Ultonia  28°  Aprilis,        00  11  0 

"  Sr  Johannes  Neutreuaile  30°  Aprilis,     , 00   10  0 

"Matheus  Fourde  pro  filio  3°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Dns  Vicecomes  Neutreuaile  «g  uxore  6°  Maij,      .     .     .     .  01   00  0 

"  Matrona  Pitts  iunior  8°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Guilielimus  Hilthon  p'dictus  11°  Maij, 01     2  0 

"Patricius  Mappas  distillationibus  obnoxius  14°  Maij,    .     .  00   11  0 

"Matheus  Reade  famulus  Edwardi  Arthurij  17°  Maij,    .     .  00     5  0 

"Faghna  O'Ferrale  17°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Guilielimus  Hilthon  p'dictus  p  uxore  ferunculo  in  mammis 

obnoxia, 01   00  0 

"Vicecomes  de  Baltinglas  p  sua  Diia  p'dicta  23  Maij,     .     .  01   00  0 

"  Johannes  Stanley  £  filio  25°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Vidua  soror  Dni  Neutreuiel  p  se  25°  Maij, 00     7  0 

"Sr  Robertus  King  junior  p  sua  Domina  28°  Maij,    ...  01   00  0 

"Jdem  pro  eadem  29°  Maij, 01   00  0 

"  Jdem  pro  eadem  30°  Maij, 01   00  0 

"Mr  Munkes  belga  3°  Junij, 01     2  0 

"  Daniell  Mollineux/secialis  regius  5°  Junij, 01   00  0 

"  Mr  fox  pro  uxore  pregnante  8°  Junii, 01   00  0 

"  St.  Laurence  centurio  p  se  10  Junii, 01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Plunkett  JD  filia  Margareta  tumori  adenum  in  collo, 

instar  Scrophula,  obnoxia  13°  Junii, 01   00  0 

"  Mr  Tumor  mercator  anglus  in  platea  patritiana  15°  Junii,  00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Plunkett  p'dicta  p  eadem  filia  16°  Junii,    .     .     .  0110  0 

"  Mr  Tumor  p'dictus  7°  Junii, 00   10  0 

"Idem  18°  Junii, 00  10  0 


154 


£     s. 

d. 

"Idem  19°  Junii,     

00  10 

f\r\     i  r\ 

0 

"  Idem  20°  Junii,      

00  10 

"  Idem  21°  Junii,     .     •  A  • 

00  10 

0 

"  Idem  22°  Junii,     .     '     

00  10 

0 

"  Idem  23°  Junii,     '     '    .:     '     ' 

00  10 

"  Dfis  Vice  comes  de  Gormastowne1  p  uxore  21  Junii,    .     . 

03  00 

0 

"  Sr  llobert  King  p'dictus  p  eadem  29th  Junij,  

01  00 

0 

"Thomas  Whytede  Wards  pthisicus  1°  Julij,  
"  Justiciarius  Phillepott  pro  filio  4°  Julij,     

00  10 
00  10 

0 
0 

"  Mr  Tumor  p'dictus  p  8°  Julij,     .     .     .     •     •     •     •     •     • 

00  10 

0 

"  Matrona  Plunkett  p'dicta  pro  eade  filia  8°  Julij,      .      .     . 

01   00 

0 

"  Ellina  Tallon  vidua  p'dicta  11°  Julij,    

00  10 

0 

4  k  Thomas  fieldeus  mercator  14°  Julij,  .     ....... 

00  10 

0 

"Johannes  Southwell  p'dictus  p  uxore  17°  Julij,  .     .  ^.     , 

00  10 

0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Tutchborne  praedictus  p  famulo  20°  Julij,     . 

00  11 

0 

"  Patricius  Mappas  p'dictus  24°  Julij,       .     .     .     •     •     •     • 

00  10 

0 

<'  Thomas  Johannis  Arthurius  mercator  27°  Julij,  ^     .     .     . 

00  10 

0 

"Johannes  Southwell  p  eadem  sua  uxore  31°  Julij,   .     .     . 

00  10 

0 

"  Sir  Carolus  Coute  senior  p'dictus  7°  Augustii,    .... 

02  00 

0 

"Idem  11°  Augusti,     • 

02  00 

0 

"  Idem  15°  Augusti,     

02  00 

0 

"  Rowlandus  Chamberlaine  p  filia  16°  Augusti,       .     .     .     . 

00     5 

0 

"  Slany  ni  Bryen  p  filio  Guilielimi  Dungane  19°  Augustii,  . 

00  15 

0 

"Matrona  Moa  quce,    inoratur   apud  Dfmm  Dillon,   19° 

Augusti,    

00  10 

0 

"  Edmundus  Cammane  Wexfordiensis  27°  Augusti,   .     .     . 

00    7 

0 

"  Jacobus  Handcock  centurio  30°  Augusti,  

01  00 

0 

'  Matrona  Plunkett  p  filia  p'dicta  6°  Septembris,  .... 

01  00 

0 

1  Mr  Conningham  sartor  8°  Septembris,  

00     8 

0 

*  Sr  Johannes  Breuerthon  p  uxore  p'dicta  12  Septembris,  . 

01  00 

0 

'  Matrona  Plunkett  p'dicta  p  ancilla  14°  Septebris,    .     .     . 

00     5 

0 

'  Quidfi  studiosus  de  collegio  16  Septembris,     

00  10 

0 

*  Acchmi    O  Misdie    chyrurgus   Ultoniensis  p  quoda  segro 

20°Spcr.,  

00  10 

0 

"  Joanes  Pseudo  Decanus  Cassiliensis  23°  Septembris,     .     . 

00  10 

0 

"  Jacobus  Doode  pro  uxore  25  Septembris,  

00     5 

0 

"  Guilielimus  Hilthon  p'dictus  p  uxore  p'dicta  25°  Seps.     . 

02  00 

0 

"  Matrona  Mappas  p'dicta  28°  Septembris,    

00     5 

0 

"  Guilielimus  Plunkett  scriba  30  Septembris,    

00  10 

0 

"  Idem  3°  Octobris,  

00  10 

0 

"  Petrus  Queyn  pro  se  8°  Octobris,       

00  10 

0 

"  Dus  Vice  Comes  /aulkland  prorex  11°  Octobris,       .     .     . 

02  00 

0 

"  Comittissa   Tyrconnell   p'dicta   p   Christophero   filio  14° 

Octobris,    

01  00 

0 

"Diia  Sexten  pro  cognata  sua  Maria  Poulter  16°  Octobris, 

00  10 

0 

"  Alisia  Barneuil,  quoc  matrona  Whyte,  p'dicta  20°  Octobris, 
"  Symon/anning  Lyrm'censis  pro  Johanne  filio  23  Octobris, 

00  10 
00  10 

0 
0 

1  This  appears  to  be  Jenico  Preston,  Peerage  of  Ireland  on  the  7th  of  August* 
fifth  Viscount  in  descent  from  Sir  Ro-  1478,  by  the  title  of  Viscount  Gormans- 
bert  Preston,  who  was  elevated  to  the  town  of  Gormanstown. 


155 

£     s.  d. 

"  Idem  27  Octobris,  p  eodem, 00     6  0 

"  Parry  ludimagister  27°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Gulielimus  Crafton,  p  filio  29°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Justiciarius  Mayard  p'dictus  p  filio,  2°  Novembris,      .     .  01  00  0 

"  Robertus  Meredith  p  filio,        00  10  0 

"  Ellina  Talloun  vidua  p'dicta  9°  Novembris, 02  10  0 

"  Symon/anning  p'dictus  p  filio  p'dicto  12°  Novembris,      .  01  00  0 

"  Gualterus  Taylor  de  Turuie  15°  Novembris,       ....  01   00  0 

"Johannes  St.  Laurence  de  Crucetowne  18°  Novembris,      .  01   00  0 

"Matrona  Tath  de  Droghedaha  21°  Novembris,     ....  01  00  0 

"  Robertus /leming  de  Drohedaha  30°  Novembris,      ...  06     6  0 

"  Mr  Arthor  Hill  2°  Decembris  p  uxore, 00  10  0 

"  Nicholaus  Porter  de  Drohedaha  6°  Decembris,    ....  00  10  0 

"  Christopherus  Why te  p'dictus  10°  Decembris,    ....  01   00  0 
"Johannes  /ourd   p  quoda    iuuene    Wardoru  infirmo   13° 

Decembris, 00  10  0 

"  Patritius  Delahyde  de  Drohedaha  16°  Decembris,         .     .  01  00  0 

"Robertus  Fleming  p'dictus  19°  Decembris, 02  00  0 

"  Arthur  Hill  p  uxore  p'dicta  23°  Decembris, 00   1 1  0 

"  Mr  Dowdall  de  Thimoule  27°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"  Nicholaus  Skarley  p  uxore  30°  Decembris, 00   10  0 

"  Elizabeths  Plunkett  20°  January, 00  10  0 

"Nicholaus  Loftus  p  se  7°  Januarij, 01  00  0 

"  Idem  8°  Januarij, 00  10  0 

"  Sr  Richardus  Ayleswoorth  14°  Januarij, 06  00  0 

"  Matrona  Mapas  p'dicta  17°  January, 00     8  0 

"  Edwardus  Dowdall  Register  CuriaB  Cancelarise  a  cholera 

morbo,  quo  pene  sublatus  est,  tande  restitutus  23°  Jan'.  02  00  0 

"Matrona  Dauidis  Beg  p  famulo  25°  Januarij,       ....  00     5  6 

"  Matrona  Plunkett  p'dicta  29°  Januarij, 01     2  0 

"  Sr  Guilielimus  Stewart  p'dictus  1°  February,      ....  00  10  0 

"Robertus /leming  p'dictus  5°  February", 01    10  0 

«*  Sr  Lucas  Fitzgerald  pro  uxore  icterica  9°  February,     .     .  02  00  0 

"  Joanes  pseudo  Decanus  Caselliensis  p'dictus  15°  februarij,  00   10  0 

"Francisca  ancilla  Dnae  Angiers  20°  February,      .     .     .     .  00  10  0 

"Matrona  Stanihurst  23°  Februarij, 00  10  0 

"Sr  Guilielimus  Vssher,  senior,  27°  Februarij,      ....  01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Stanihurst  p'dicta  1°  Martij, 00   10  0 

"  Gualterus  Britt,  p  filio  5°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"Francisca  ancilla  p'dicta  9°  Martij,         00  10  0 

"Richardus  Doude  p'dictus  13°  Martij,        00  10  0 

"Sr  Guilielimus  Vssher,  senior,  p'dictus  18   Martij,       .     .  01  00  0 

"Matrona  Stanihurst  p'dicta  21°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"  Edwardus  Whyte  studiosus  e  collegio  23°  Martij,  .     .     .  00   10  0 

"Josephus  Maddine  24°  Martij,  1628,      .......  00  10  0 

"Honoraria  nobis  collata  hoc  ano  p'terito  attingutad 
sumam  £109  8*.  6d,  ster.,  pro  quibus  sumo 
deo   bonoru   omniu    largitori,    quas 
possumus,  rependimus  gratias. 


156 

Anno  Dni  1629. 

£     8.  d. 

-DanieUMollineauxfecialisregiusp  folio  26°  Martij,     .     .  01   00  0 
"Vxor  Jacob!  Byrrin  praedicta  28°  Martij,   ........ 

"S'GuilielimusVssher  senior  p'dictus  28°  Martij,      .     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Johannes  Greniham  pro  fiho  Thoma  30°  Marty,    .     ...  00  10 

-Idem  pro  eodem  1"  Aprilis,       ••;;•-.    -...'     '     '  °*  °°  ° 

«  Johannes  Stanley  senior  p  nepote  ex  fratre  3°  Apri  is,   .     . 

"  Johannes  Greynham  p'dictus  p  eodem  fiho  3°  Aprilis,   .     .  00 

"  Matrona  fagane  pro  filio  6°  Aprilis, 

•'  Josephus  Maddine  p'dictus  9°  Aprilis,   .     .     .     .     .     .     .  0011  0 

"  Daniel  Mollineaux  p'dictus  p  eodem  fiho  Thorna  p  dicto  12 

^     -j  00  10  6 

"Johannes  Greynham  p'dictus  p  eodem  filio  13°  Aprilis,  .     .  00  10  0 

"Matrona  Stanihurst  p'dicta  16°  Aprilis, 00  10  6 

"  Christopherus  Keynane  pro  vxore  20°  Aprilis,     ....  00  10  0 

"Mr  Fitz-Gerrald  pro  famulo  23°  Aprilis, 00   10  6 

"  Edwardus  Whyte  studiosus  p'dictus  25°  Aprilis,     ...  01  00  0 

"  Phillippus  Perciual  p  seruis  28°  Aprilis,     .     .     .     .     .     .  01    10  0 

"  Idem  pro  famulo  suo  francisco  Burges  30°  Aprilis,   .     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Sr  Edwardus  Bagsheaw  p  sua  Domina  3°  Maij,     ....  00  10  6 

"Thomas  Yeldon  pro  vxore  5°  Maij, 00  10  6 

"Johannes  Talbottp  sorore  7°  Maij, 00     6  0 

"Sr  Edwardus  Bagsheaw  p  vxore  p'dicta  10°  Maij,     .     .     .  00  10  6 

"Quajdam  generosa  ruri  degens  14°  Maij, 00  10  6 

"Sr.  Edwardus  Bagsheaw  pro  eadem  vxore  17°  Maij,  ...  00   10  6 

"Nicholaus  Loftus  p'dictus  22°  Maij, 01   00  0 

"  Sr  Jacobus  Dillon  26°  Maij, 01    10  0 

"Nicholaus  Loftus  p'dictus  30°  Maij, 00  10  6 

44  Dominicus  Coppinger  5°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"Sr  Johannes  Bath  12°  Junij, 01    10  0 

"  Henricus  Cleare  17°  Jumj, 00  10  6 

*'  Robertus  Newcomen  iunior  p'dictus  21°  Junij,   ....  01   10  0 
"Johannes  Southwell  p'dictus  p  Henrico  Cleare  p'd:  27° 

Junij, 01  00  0 

"SrDudleusNorthonl°Julij, 01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Pyers  vidua  9°  Julij  hypochondriaca,    ....  01     2  0 

uSr  Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  15°  Julij, 01   00  0 

"Johannes  Dumbillp  filia  21°  Julij, 00   10  6 

"S' Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  26°  Julij, 01   00  0 

"Robertus  Newcomen  iunior  p'dictus  29°  Julij,     .     .     .     .  00  10  6 

"  Sr  Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  10°  Augusti, 01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Pyers  vidua  p'dicta  De  Thristernah  3°  Augusti, .  00  1 1  0 
**  4°  Augusti  discessi  dublinio  Lyftlicum  ubi  comoratus  ad 
23m  Die  Nouebris  insequentis,  ubi  interea  temporis  ob- 

tinui  a  diversis  aogris,        22     5  0 

"St.  Laurence  Senator  Drohadahensis  puxore  30°  Novembris,  01   10  0 
''Jacobus  Vssher  pseudoprimas  Ardmachanus  p'dictus  20° 

Decemb., 11  00  0 

"  Sr  Doudly  Northon  p'dictus  surdaster  factus  22°  Decembris,  01  00  0 

"  Thomas  Johannis  Arthurius  27°  Decembris, 00  10  6 

4 'Sr  Doudly  Northon  p'dictus  31°  Decembris, 01  00  0 


157 

£    s.  d. 

"  S'  Eobertus/oord  p  sua  domina  5°  Januarij, 01    10  6 

"  Mr  Elliott  15°  Januarij, 0010  0 

"Sr  Dowdly  Northon  p'dictus  1 8°  Januarij, 01   00  0 

"  Mr  Philip?  Perciual  p  eadem  sua  uxore  21°  Januarij,    .     .  01  00  0 

"Sr  Robertus/oord  p'dictus  p  eadem  26°  Januarij,     ...  01  00  0 

"Mr  Phillipus  Perciual  p  eadem  sua  uxore  28°  Januarij,      .  00  10  0 

'*  Doctor  Donnellane  pro  sua  uxore  31°  Januarij,    ....  00  10  0 

"  Patricius  Mappas  p'dictus  p  se  2°/ebruarij, 00   10  0 

"Jacobus  Duff  p  uxore  Rosa  Mar  tine  5° /ebruarij,      .     .     .  00   10  0 

"  Quida  Nauta  belga  7°/ebruariJ> 00     5  6 

"Sr.  Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  11°  /ebruarij, 01   00  0 

"Jacobus  Handcock  centurio  p'dictus  15 /ebruarij,     ...  01  00  0 

"Vidua  Pan  thine  20°  /ebruarij, 01   00  0 

"Patricius  Mappas  p'dictus  27° /ebruarij, 01  00  0 

**  Eduardus  Johannis  Arthurius  p  uxore  Barbara  1°  Martij,  00   14  6 

"  Sr Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  a  surditate  liberatus  6°  Martij,  01  00  0 
"8°  die  Martii  discessi  Dublinio  Lynlicu  accersitus  ad  Joana 
Leo  uxore  Andrew  Creagh  phlegmone  systrophica  vteri 
laborante  ubi  comoratis  apud  uxore  ad  septimu  diem 

insequentis  Junij.  interea  vero  ad  24m.  Martii  obtinui,  .  05   10  0 

"  Honoraria  hujus  elapsi  anni  adimpleant  siimam 
£84  12s.  Qd.  pro  quibus  et  cseteris  diuinis 
beneficijs  dignas  sed  longe  impares 
Deo  referrimus  gratias. 

Anno  Dni  1630. 
A  25°  Martij  ad  4m  Junij  1630  quida  segri  mea  opera  vsi 

dederunt  mihi  honoraria  ad  suma  II1, 11     6  0 

"  Sr  Dudleus  Northon  post  reditu  meu  Dubliniu  9°  Junij,    .  0100  0 

"  Jacobus /leming  p  uxore  10°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"Thomas  Skyddy  11°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  Jacobus  /leming  p'dictus  p  eadem  uxore  12°  Junij,     .     .  00   10  0 

"  Phillipus  Hore  Senior  13°  Junij, 00  05  0 

"Thomas  Skyddy  p'dictus  13°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  Domina /ourd  Senior  15°  Junij, 01   00  0 

"  Carolus/lorentii  M'Cartie  17°  Junij, 00  10  0 

'*  Jacobus /leming  p  p'dicta  uxore  20°  Junij, 01  00  0 

"  Theobaldus  Walsh  p  uxore  26°  Junij, 00  14  0 

"  Johannes  Grey nhame  p'dictus  p  filia  1°  Julij,      ....  00  10  0 

"  Phillipus  Hore  p'dictus  p  uxore  8°  Julij, 01  00  0 

"Henricus/letcher  p  se  12°  Julij, 01  00  0 

"  Johannes  Greynhame  p'dictus  p  eade  filia  14°  Julij,     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Theobaldus  Walsh  p'dictus  p  eadem  uxore  16°  Julij,   .     .  00     6  0 

"Matrona  Eichardi  Doud  p  filio  16°  Julij, 00     5  0 

"Matrona  Carbery  18°  Julij,     .     , 00     5  0 

"  Edwardus  Dowdal  registrarius  Curise  Cancellarise  19°  Julij,  01  00  0 

"  Sir  Guilielimus  Parsons1  p  filio  Richardo  22°  Julij,      .     .  00   10  0 

1  Sir  William  Parsons,  ancestor  of  endorsing  the  Royal  Commission  of 
the  Earls  of  Rosse.  He  wrote  a  magni-  James  I.,  which  was  given  to  him  (then 
ficent  hand,  as  I  find  by  his  signature  William  Parsons,  Esq.,  His  Majesty's 

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158 

£    s.  d, 

•'Sr  Guilielimns  Parsons  p  filio  Richardo  22°  Julij,    ...  00  10  0 

"  Mathteus  Reade  p'dictus  24°  Julij,         .     .     .     •     •     .     .  00     8 
"Sr  Guilieliraus  Parsons  p'dictus  p  eodc  fiho  29°  Julij,  .     . 

"  Guilielimus  Plunkett  scriba  p'dictus  2°  August!,      ...  00 

-Idem  3"  August!,       00  10  0 

-Idem  4°  August!,         00  10 

"Decanus  Parker  p  filio  6°  Augusti, 00     5 

"Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p'dictus  p  eodem  filio  6°  Augusti,  0100  0 

"Decanus  Parker  p'dictus  p  eodem  filio  7°  Augusti,  .     .     .  00   10  0 

"  Christopherus  Why te  p'dictus  p  filio  8°  Augusti,    ...  00  10  0 

"  Decanus  Parker  p'dictus  £  eodem  filio  10°  Augusti,     .     .  0012  0 

*»  Dominions  Synott  p  uxore  11°  Augusti, 00     5  6 

Doctor  Robeftus  Vssher  p'dictus  p  se  12°  Augusti,       .     .  00  10  6 

Robertus  Nangle  de  Dinglicuish  14°  Augusti,     ....  00     5  0 

Decanus  Parker  p'dictus  p  uxore  17°  Augusti,    ....  00  10  0 

Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p  p'dicto  filio  10°  Augusti,   ...  01  00  0 

Guilielimus  Plunket  p'dictus  p  filio  21°  Augusti,    ...  00  10  0 

"Decanus  Parker  p'dictus  p  filio  22°  Augusti,       ....  00     5  0 

"  Mr  Larkane  p  se  22°  Augusti, 00     5  0 

"  Guilielimus  Plunket  p'dictus  24°  Augusti, 01   00  0 

"  Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p  filio  p'dicto  28°  Augusti,       .     .  01  00  0 

"  Phillippus  Hore  p'dictus  30°  Augusti, 00   10  0 

"  Robertus  Browne  5°  Septembris, 00     5  0 

"  Michahel  Brohol  5°  Septembris,        00     5  0 

"  Domina  Newcomen  p'dicta  p  filia  Catherina  7°  Septem- 
bris,       00  10  0 

11  Denstervile  minister  9°  Septembris,       . 00     5  0 

4<Sr  Henricus  Tutchborne  p  filio  p'dicto  12°  Septembris,    .  00  10  0 

"Johannes  Greinhame  p'dictus  14°  Septembris,      ....  00     6  0 

"Sr  Henricus  Tutchborne  p'dictus  pro  eodem  filio  16°  Sept.,  00  10  0 

41  Vidua  Cleinthon  pro  filia  18°  Septembris, 02  00  0 

"Patritius  Meredith  pleuriticus  21°  Septembris,    ....  01  00  0 

**  Thomas  Whyte  citra  pontem  26°  Septembris,       ....  00     8  0 

"Robertus  Meredith  p'dictus  1°  Octobris, 01  00  0 

"Johannes  Greinhame  p'dictus  3°  Octobris, 00     6  0 

Surveyor-General  "  of  all  his  Majesty's  dred    pounds    Englishe  by  the    yeare 

lande    in  this    realme"),    on  the    24th  during  the  lyfe  of  Sr  William  Harring- 

of  August,  1614,    with   Sir    Lawrence  ton,   Knt.,    and    afterwardes  one  hun- 

Esmonde,    Knight,    James   Walshe,    of  dred  and  fifty  pounds  Englishe  by  the 

Shanganagh,    and    Thomas    Allen,    of  yeare  to   be  paid,  &c.,  to  the    King's 

Killhoolye,    Esqrs.,  "  under  the  greate  Majestie,  his  heirs,  successors,  &c.,  for 

Scale     of  this    Realme,"     authorising  and  out  of  the  Territories  called  Birne's 

them  "after  severall  meetings  therein  Mountains,  and  Totha  in  the  County  of 

Lad  with  the  inhabitants  of  the   saide  Wicklow,"  &c.,  &c.     It  was  this  survey 

territorie  (the  country  of  the  O'Byrnes  and  assessment,  the  original  of  which  is 

of  the     Mountains    of  the   County    of  now  before  me,   that  led  to  one  of  the 

Wicklow),  and  with  the  advyce  of  the  most   disastrous   and    fatal   clearances 

p'sons  of  most  understandinge  therein,  recorded   in  Irish  history,    as  well  as 

having    respect    alsoe  to   the    former  one  which  has  been  pronounced  by  all 

greate  charge  of  the  severall  villages,"  authorities    as    the    most    unjust    and 

&c.,  &c.,  "to  assess  or  plott  two  hun-  cruel. 


159 

£     s.  d. 

"  Robertus  Meredith  p'dictus  5°  Octobris, 01  00  0 

"  Johannes  Greinham  p'dictus  7°  Octobris, 00     5  6 

"  Mr  Long  p  filio  9°  Octobris, 00     6  0 

"Robertus  Cusake  de  Rathegare  pro  filio  Johanne  11°  Oct.,     00     7  0 

"Simonis  Esmondi  famulus  Chyuers  14°  Octobris,      ...     00   11  0 

«  Robertus  Cusake  pro  se  20°  Octobris, 00     9  0 

"  Clemens  Aissh  23°  Octobris, 01   00  0 

4<Patritius  Mappas  p'dictus  25°  Octobris, 00     5  0 

"  Robertus  Meredith  p'dictus  liberatus  a  pleuritide  28°  Oct.,    02  00  0 

*'  Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p'dict9  p  filio  et  uxore  31°  Octobris,    10  00  0 
**  DnaNeutrauileiunior,  uxor  Johannis equitis, tremori  cordis 

a  fervidis  atrabiliarijs  orto  obnoxia  2°  Novembris  dedit,      00   10  0 

"  Thomas  Whyte  p'dictus  p  uxore  3°  Novembris,        ...     00     5  0 

"  Johannes  Higgins  p  filio  4°  Novembris, 00     6  0 

<*  Domina  Baltinglass  p'dicta  5°  Novembris, 01  00  0 

"  Phillippus  Hore,  senior,  p'dictus  7°  Novembris,      ...     00   14  0 
"Dna  Newcomen  p'dicta  p  Catherina  filia  9°  Novembris,     00  10  0 
"  Robertus  Meredith  p'dictus  p  filia  Greisella  12°  Novem- 
bris,         01  00  0 

"  Thomas  Whyte  p'dictus  14°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Robertus  Rason  clericus  officii  Pipa3  dicti  nephriticus  16° 

Novembris, 02  00  0 

"  Jacobus  Berminghame  p  uxore  18°  Novembris,  ....     01   00  0 

"  Nicholaus  Loftus  1 9°  Novembris, 00   10  0 

"Mr[             ]  te  2°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Thomas  Johannis  Arthurius  p'dictus  22°  Novembris,        .     01   00  0 

"  Domina  Johannis  Breuerthon  p'dicta  24°  Novembris,  .     .     01   00  0 
**  Matrona  Vssher  pro  consanguineo  Thoma  Phillips  26°  Nu- 

bris, 00   10  0 

"  Clemens  Aissh  p'dictus  27°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Jacobus  Rason  p'dictus  29°  Novembris,       ......     02  00  0 

"Margareta  Vssher  1°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

<(  Robertus  Meredith  pro  filia  p'dicta  2°  Decembris,   ...     00  10  0 
'*  Vxor  Thoma3  Wetherbie  p  filio  3°  Decembris,    ....     00     5  0 
"  Phillippus  Perciual  p  Josepho  Maddin  p'dicto  4°  Decem- 
bris,         00  10  0 

"  Margareta  Vssher  pMicta  5°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"Vxor  Thoma3  Wetherbie  p'dicta  p  eodem  filio  7°  Decem- 
bris,       .....     00     5  0 

"  Robertus  Meredith  p'dictus  p  eadem  filia  8°  Decembris,  .     00  10  0 

"  Thomas  Whyte  p'dictus  11°  Decembris, 00     5  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Lee  13°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"Dna  Baltinglas  p'dicta  14°  Decembris, 00  10  6 

"Nicholaus  Pinnard  centurio1  15°  Decembris, 00   10  0 

i  This  seems  to  be  the  Captain  Nicho-  tlement  and  Plantation.  Pynnar's  Sur- 
las  Pynner,  or  Pinnard,  as  above  writ-  vey  was  made  by  virtue  of  a  Commis- 
ten,  who  in  1618,  after  the  flight  of  the  sion  of  Inquiry  into  the  performance  of 
Earls  of  Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell,  made  the  conditions  by  the  Undertakers  and 
a  Survey  of  the  Counties  in  Ulster,  in  others  concerned  in  the  said  Settlement, 
which  King  James  I.  had  made  the  Set-  and  which  was  returned  to  be  miserably 


160 

£    s.  d. 

"  Robertus  Meredith  p'dictus  p  eade  filia  17°  Decembris,     .  01  00  0 

»  Matrona  Borr  p  filio  Johanne  Brysse  19°  Decembris,    .     .  00 

"Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p  se  21°  Decembris, 01  00  0 

"  Domina  Newcomen  p'dicta  2°  Januarij, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Vssher  iunior  p  faraulo  3°  Januarij,     ....  00  10  0 
"  Daniel  Mollineaux  faecialis  regius  p'dictus  4°  Januarij,     . 

"  Idem  pro  se  6°  Januarij, 01  00  0 

Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p'dictus  8°  Januarij,       ....  01   00  0 

Guilielimus  Crofton  p  filio  10°  Januarij, 00  10  6 

Matrona  Fleming  1 1°  Januarij, 00     6  0 

Guilielimus  Vssher  iunior  p  uxore  13°  Januarij,      ...  01  00  0 

Domina  Dillon  p  filio  Cary  14°  Januarij, 01  00  0 

"Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p'dictus  15°  Januarij,      ....  01   00  0 

"  Daniel  Mollineaux  p'dictus  11°  Januarij, 01    00  0 

"  Diis  Robertus  Dillon  p  se  19°  Januarij, 00  10  0 

"  Guilielimus  Vssher  iunior  p  eade  uxore,     ....          .  01  00  0 

"  Daniell  Mollineaux  p'dictus  24°  Januarij, 01   00  0 

"  Jacobus  Handcock  centurio  p'dictus  25°  Januarij,    .     .     .  00  10  6 

"  Guilielimus  Sainct  leger1  iunior  films  Prassidis  28°  Jan.,  .  03  00  0 

"Matrona  Pyers  senior  p  se  29°  Januarij, 01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Bodley  pro  filia  30°  Januarij, 00     5  0 

"Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p'dictus  l°/ebruarij, 01   00  0 

"Thomas  Skyddie  p'dictus  p  se  2° /ebruarij, 00  10  6 

"  Domina  Newcomen  p'dicta  3° /ebruarij, 01   10  0 

'Johannis  Greinham  p'dictus  p  uxore  4° /ebruarij,     ...  00     6  0 

'Idem  p  eadem  6° /ebruarij, •  00     6  0 

'P.  Cusak  pro  sorore  7° /ebruarij, 00     6  0 

'  Dna  Baltinglas  p'dicta  p  filia  8° /ebruarij, 00   10  0 

'Johannes  Greinhame  p'dictus  p  eadem  9° /ebruarij,       .     .  00     6  0 

4  Idem  p  eadem  10°/ebruarij, 00     6  0 

'  Thomas  Whyte  p'dictus  10° /ebruarij, 00     3  0 

'Daniell  Mollineaux  p'dictus  ll°/ebruarij, 01   00  0 

'  Sr  Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  12° /ebruarij, 01  00  0 

'Johannes  Greinhame  p'dictus  pro  eadem  13° /ebruarij,       .  00     6  0 

'Jo.  Lacie  14° /ebruarij  pro  se, 00  10  0 

'Sr  Doudleus  Northon  p'dictus  15° /ebruarij, 01  00  0 

4  Johannes  Greinham  p'dictus  16° /ebruarij, 00     6  0 

'Domina  Olueri  Lambert  vidua  17° /ebruarij,       ....  00   15  0 

'  Dna  Dillon  p'dicta  p  eodem  filio  18° /ebruarij,     ....  01   00  0 

'Johannes  Greinham  p'dictus  p  eadem  19°/ebruarij,      .     .  00     5  0 

4  Sr  Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  20° /ebruarij, 01  00  0 

'Christianus  Borr  p'dictus  p  famulo  20° /ebruarij,     ...  00     5  6 

'Matrona  Bodely  p'dicta  p  filia  22° /ebruarij, 00  15  0 

'Doctor  Robertus  Vssher  p  aflSne  suo  23° /ebruarij,       .     .  00     6  0 

defective  in  the  most  material  articles;       years  afterwards.     See  Harris's  "  Hi- 
and  from  whence  "the  Popish  interest"       bernica." 

according  to   Pynnar,  gained  so  much  >  Of  President  St.  Leger  the  history 

ground  that  it  was  thereby  enabled  to       of  those  days  is  so  full  that  it  is  useless 

carry  on  a  desperate  rebellion  a  few       to  try  to  compress  it  into  a  note. 


161 

£  a.  d. 

"Sr  Guilielimus  Vssher  senior1  24° /ebruarij, 00  11  0 

"Johannes  Stanley  senior  p  uxore  p'dicta  25° /ebruarij,        .  01  00  0 

"Johannes  Quoyn  citra  pon  tern  26° /ebruarij, 00  4  6 

"  Dns  Docwray  senior2  perineumoniacus  28° /ebruarij,    ..      .  00  11  0 

"Idem  l°Martij, 01  2  0 

11  Idem  2°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"Sr  Guilielimus  Vssher  senior  p'dictus  3°  Martij,       ...  0011  0 

"Sr  Dudle  us  Northon  p'dictus  3°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  4°  Martij,        01  02  0 

"  Matrona  Queyn  p  ancilla  4°  Martij, 00  2  6 

"  Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  5°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Gilbertus  Doumbill  p  filia  5°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"Matrona  Bodley  p'dicta  p  eadem  filia  5°  Martij,       ...  00  5  0 

"  Sr  Jacobus  Ware  senior3  p  filio  Josepho  6°  Martij,    ...  00  10  0 

"Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  6°  Martij, 01  00  0 

1  Sr  Dodleus  Northon  p'dictus  7°  Martij, 01  00  0 

'Oatherina  Parsons  quse  Matrona  Barry  8°  Martij,    .     .     .  01  00  0 

'  Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  9°  Martij,      '. 01  2  0 

'Sr  Guilielimus  Vssher  senior  p'dictus  10°  Martijj      .     .  01  00  0 

'Daniel  Mollineux  prgedictus  11°  Martij, 01  00  0 

'Robertus  Bonny  minister  12°  Martij, 00  10  0 

'Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  13°  Martij, 01  00  0 

'Idem  14°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Comitissa  Barrymore  pro  primogenito  14°  Martij,    ...  01  00  0 

"  Guilielimus  Plunkett  scriba  p'dictus  15°  Martij,      ...  01  00  0 

"  Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  15°  Martij, 02  2  0 

"  Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p'dictus  16°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"S*  Thomas  "Weaymons4  16°  Martij, 0010  0 

"Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  17°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"Sr  Thomas  Weaymons  p'dictus  17°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"Guilielimus  Crafton  p'dictus  18°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  18°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"SrDudleus  Northon  p'dictus  19°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  20°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"M--  Smith  20°  Martij, 00  5  0 

"  Guilielimus  Crafton  p'dictus  21°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Johannes  famulus  Dni  baronis  de  Keyry  21°  Martij,     .     .  00  10  0 


'  Sir  William  Usher,  the  elder,  was  2  SeeArchdall's  "Lodge,"  vol. i. p.  319. 
son  of  John  Usher,  who  was  Mayor  of  3  Sir  James  Ware,  the  celebrated  an- 
Dublin  in  1571,  and  who  wrote  a  trea-  tiquary  and  writer,  who  thus  made  the 
tise,  "  De  Reformatione  Hibernise,"  acquaintance  of  Dr.  Thomas  Arthur, 
which  is  mentioned  in  Ware's  writers,  p.  and  who  makes  mention  of  Dr.  Arthur 
97-  John  Usher  was  recommended  to  in  his  works,  as  the  possessor  of  certain 
Sir  William  Cecil,  Knt.,  Chief  Secretary  valuable  manuscripts  of  his  illustrious 
to  Queen  Elizabeth,  as  a  zealous  man  in  relative,  Archbishop  Creagh.  See  Leni- 
Christ's  religion,  who  "  desireth  to  have  ban's  "  History  of  Limerick." 
the  Custom  of  Dublinge,  which  is  to  be  4  Very  likely  the  son  of  Captain  Ed- 
letted  out  Michelmas  next  in  ferme,  or  mond  Waynman,  Provost  Marshal  of 
otherwise,  &c."  See  Shirley's  "  Origi-  Connaught,  in  which  "office  he  was  suc- 
nal  Letters."  ceeded  by  Sir  Charles  Coote. 


162 

£     9.  d 

«  Sr  Theodorus  Docwray  primogenitus  Dili  Docwray  p'dicti  ^  ^ 

»DfisSDocwrayp'dictus22°Martij,    .     ...     .     .     .  01  00  0 

uComitissaBarrymorepfiHoPra3dicto23°Martij,     .... 

"Dili  Docwray  p'dictus  23°  Martij, 0100 

»  Sr  Theodorus  Docwray  p'dictus  24°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"Ro«*erus   King  Vice  clericus  officii  Hanaparh  dicti  24° 

Martij, 00  10  0 

•'Qura  hoc   animo  accepimus  honoraria  attingunt    ad  suma 

£145  13s.  6d.  stg.  pro  quibus  et  omnibus  Diuinse  benig- 

nitatis  susceptis  emolumetis  sumo  Deo  bonorii  omniu 

largitori  munifico,  sit  honor  %  gloria  in  ssecula 

seculoru.    Amen. 

Anno  1631. 

*<  Dominus  Docwray  p'dictus  25°  Martij  1631, 01  00  0 

«  Dim  Digby  pro  filio  26°  Martij,   , 01   00  0 

"  Dominus  Docwray  p'dictus  26°  Martij, 01  00  0 

«  Johannes     Talbot    famulus     Gulielmi    Turnerii     subita 

pieptoffi  sen  fatuitate  correptus  26°  Martij,    .....  00     5  0 

"Sr  Theodorus  Docwray  p'dictus  27°  Martij, 0010  0 

"  Centurio  Leuentrop  27°  Martij, 00  10  0 

«Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p'dictus  28°  Martij, 01   00  0 

"  Edmundus  Maloune  senator  p  filia  28°  Martij,     ....  00  10  0 

Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  2°  Martij, 01  00  0 

Idem  29°  Martij, 01   00  0 

Idem  30°  Martij, 01   00  0 

Sr  Theodorus  Docwray  p'dictus  31°  Martij, 00  10  0 

Patritius  Fitz  Moris1  Dns  Kyery  £  uxore  1°  Aprilis,    .     .  01     2  0 

Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  2°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

Doctor  Robertas  Usher  p'dictus  3°  Aprilis, 00   10  0 

Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  3°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

Idem  4°  Aprilis, 02  00  0 

Doctor  Robertus  Usher  p'dictus  5°  Aprilis, 00   10  0 

•  Dfia  Digbey  p'dicta  &  filia  6°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

'Thomas  Johannis  Arthurius  p'dictus  6°  Aprilis,       .     .     .  01  00  0 

'  Sr  Theodorus  Docwray  p'dictus  7°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

4  DBI  Docwray  p'dictus  7°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

'  Matrona  Larck  8°  Aprilis, 00  05  0 

;  Matrona  Greynham  p'dicta  8°  Aprilis, 00  05  0 

'  Jacobus  Rawson  p'dictus  9°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

1  Dns  Docwray  p'dictus  10°  Aprilis, 01  00    0 

'  Matrona  Larck  p'dicta  1 1°  Aprilis, 00     5  0 

'  Purcell  Mercator  in  foro  frumentario2  11°  Aprilis,  ...  00     5  0 

4  Thomas  Sadler  12°  Aprilis, 00     5  6 

'Patrick  Fitzmaurice,  son  of  Thomas       Cullenan,  otherwise   St.  Cormac,  who 

the,  8th  Lord  of  Kerry,  who  died  on  the       died  Archbishop  of  that  See  A.  D.  908. 

3rd  J  une,  1630,  and  was  buried  at  Cashel          2  The    present    Corn  Market,  near 
in  the  chapel  and  tomb  of  Cormac  Mac       Christ  Church,  Dublin. 


165 

£     s.  d. 

"  Decanns  Bernardus  12°  Aprilis, 00     5  0 

"Sr  Jacobus  Dillon  13°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

"Dna  Catherina  Boyle  uxor  Arthur!  Jones  14°  Aprilis,  .     .  01  00  0 

4t  Guilielimus  Smith  minister  15°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"Jacobus  Handcock  Centurio  p'dictus  16°  Aprilis,    ...  00  10  0 

««  Guilielimus  Brabazon  Comes  Midiae  p'dictus  17°  Aprilis,  .  01  00  0 

"MXNenes  p  uxore  19°  Aprilis, 00     5  0 

"  Comes  Midiae  p'dictus  20°  Aprilis, 01   00  0 

'*  Sr  Theodorus    Docwray  pro    impensa    mea    opera    erga 
Dnum  fratrem  suu  prsedict',  que  ab  ineunte  morbo  deplo- 

ratge  salutis  fuisse  p'dixera,  dedit  post  obitum  21°  Aprilis,  05  00  0 

"  Comes  Midiae  p'dictus  22°  Aprilis, ,     .  01  00  0 

"  Keyse  Eivens1  25°  Aprilis, 00  1 1  0 

"  Matrona  Larke  p'dicta  26°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Comes  Midise  p'dictus  26°  Aprilis,    ........  01  00  0 

"  Mr  Baker  27°  Aprilis,     . 01   00  0 

"  Sr  Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  28°  Aprilis,   ......  01  00  0 

"Reyse  Eivens  p'dictus  28°  Aprilis,    ........  00  10  0 

"  Daniel  Mollineaux  p'dictus  29°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

"  Johannes  Greinham  p'dictus  pro  uxore  29°  Aprilis,      .     .  01  00  0 

"  Jacobus  Handcock  centurio  p'dictus  29°  Aprilis,     ,     .     .  00   10  0 

"  John  Greinham  p'dictus  pro  uxore  29°  Aprilis,  ....  00     6  0 

"  Idem  p  ead'  30°  Aprilis, 00     6  0 

"  Guilielimus  Daniel  juris  civilis  %  Canonic!  peritus  2°  Maij,  00  10  0 

"  Comes  Midise  p'dictus  30°  Maij, 01  00  0 

"  Dna  de  Kyerie  vidua  p  filio  Edmundo  30°  Maij,      ...  00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Greynham  p'dictus  j>  uxore  p'dicta  4°  Maij,      .  00     6  0 

"  Matrona  Bodely  £  filio  Thoma  p'dicto  4°  Maij,    ....  00     5  0 
"  Sr  Edwardus   Harrys  Justicianus  p  filio  suo   Edmundo 

melancholias  obnoxio  5°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Johannes  Greinham  p'dictus  p  eade  uxore  6°  Maij,       .     .  00     6  0 

"  Matrona  Borr  p'dicta  p  filio  suo  Johane  Breyse  6°  Maij,    .  00     5  0 

"  Johannes  Fagaine*  de  Peltroum  p  nepote  Johanne  7°  Maij,  01   00  0 

"  Comes  Midiee  p'dictus  3°  Maij, 01   00  0 

"  Guilielimus  Plunkett  p'dictus  9°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Larke  de  platea  Castri  9°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Johannis  Breuerton  p'dicta  10  Maij, 00  10  0 

"M*  Delahydep  famulo  11°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Mr  Tath  12°  Maij, 00   10  0 

"Mp  Champion  mercator  p  uxore  12°  Maij, 00   10  0 

"Matrona  Borr  p'dicta  pro  eodem  suo  filio  13°  Maij,  .     .     .  00     5  0 

1  Reyse  Eivens,  quere  Rice  Evans,  a       An  ancient  Cork  family   of  this  name 
Limerick  family,  ancestors  to  the  Lords       was   represented  some  few  years   ago 
Carbery— and  the  proprietors    of  Ca-       by  William  Fagan,  Esq.,  M.  P.  for  Cork 
herass,    county   of  Limerick,  before  it       city,   and  author    of   a    life    of  Daniel 
went  into  the  hands  of  the  Roches,  who       O'Connell,  the  Liberator;   and  at  pre- 
are  now  represented  by  Sir  David  Van-       sent  by  Captain  Fagan,   M.  P.  for  Car- 
deleur  Roche,  Bart.,  lately  married  to       low.   See  Sir  Bernard  Burke's  "  Landed 
a  daughter  of  Lord  Clarina.                           Gentry  of  Ireland"  for  more  about  this 

2  Fagan  of  Feltrim,   near  Malahide.       old  family. 


164 

£  a.  d. 

"Matrona  Leake  p'dicta  13°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p'dictus  14°  Maij, 01  00  0 

"  Dna  Newcomen  p'dicta  £  filia  Catherina  14°  Maij,    .     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Guilielimus  Plunkett  p'dictus  p  uxore  15°  Maij,      ...  00   10  0 

"  Thomas  Lutherell  de  Lutherellstowne  16°  Maij,      ...  01  10  0 

"  Rogerus  Moore  17°  Maij 00  10  0 

"Johannes  Greinhara  p'dictus  5  filia  17°  Maij,       ....  00     6  0 

"Matrona  Leake  p'dicta  18°  Maij, 0100  0 

"M'Tothnam  19°  Maij, 01  00  0 

<4Dns  Usher  pseudo  primas  Ardmachanus  20°  Maij, .     .     .  0200  0 

"Mr  Campion  p'dictus  pro  uxore  p'dicta  21°  Maij,      .     .     .  01  10  0 

"Johannes  Fagaine  p'dictus  p  eodem  nepote  22°  Maij,    .      .  01  00  0 

"  Daniel  Mollineaux  p'dictus  p  uxore  23°  Maij,     ....  01  00  0 

"Guilielimus  Buckley  5  uxore  24°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Dna  Letitia  Boyle  uxor  Junioris  Gorrine  25°  Maij,      .     .  01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Plunkett  p'dicta  p  filia  p'dicta  26°  Maij,    ...  00  10  0 

"  Dna  Gorrin  p'dicta  27°  Maij, 01  00  0 

"  Guilielimus  Buckley  p'dictus  £  eade'  uxore  28°  Maij,       .  00  10  0 

"  Jacobus  Leaghlen  scriba  29°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Gorrin  p'dicta  30°  Maij, 01  00  0 

"Matrona  Crafton  p'dicta  £  filia  31°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Daniell  Mollineaux  p'dictus  p  uxore  p'dicta  31°  Maij,       .  01  00  0 

"Thomas  Lutherell  p'dictus  1°  Junii, 01  00  0 

"  Guilielimus  Buckley  p'dictus  p  eadem  uxore  1°  Junii,       .  00  10  0 

'  Comitissa  de  Earrymore  p'dicta  2°  Junii, 00  10  0 

*  Dna  Gorrine  p'dicta  2°  Junii, 01  00  0 

4  Sr  Christophorus  Shiptorp  p'dictus  3°  Junii, 00  1 1  0 

1  Robertus  Kennedy  p  filia  3°  Junii, 00  10  0 

4  Margarita  Usher  p'dicta  4°  Junij, 00  10  0 

*  Johannes  Chyvers  iurisperitus  4°  Junij, 00  10  6 

1  Guilielimus  Buckley  p'dictus  ^  uxore  p'dicta  5°  Junij,     .  00  10  6 

4  Mr  Aish  senex  pro  se  6°  Junij, 00  10  0 

4  Dna  Gorrine  p'dicta  6°  Junij, 01  00  0 

4  Sr  Guilielimus  Parsons  p'dictus  7°  Junij, 01  00  0 

44  Matrona  Plunkett  p'dicta  £  filio  8°  Junij, 00  10  0 

44  Margarita  Usher  p'dicta  8°  Junij, 00  10  0 

44  Dna  Gorrine  p'dicta  9°  Junij, 01  00  0 

44  Lancellot  Lowther    baro    Skeccarij    seu  fisci   regii    10° 

Junij, 00  10  0 

44  Dna  Gorrine  p'dicta  12°  Junij 01  00  0 

44  Anna  Chyvers  14*  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  Lanceloth  Lowther  baro  p'dictus  15°  Junij, 00  10  0 

44  Sr  Johannes  Vachaine  p'dictus    16°  Junij, 00  10  0 

*4  Sr  John  Jephson  18°  Junij, 01  2  0 

44  Michahall  Cole  19°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  Sr  Thomas  Meredith  p  sua  dna  20°  Junij, 00  10  0 

44  Mr  Lake  de  Ballingarrie  21°  Junij, 02  2  0 

"  Charles  Boulthon  22°  Junij, 00  10  0 

44  Sr  Thomas  Meredith  p'dictus  p  eadem  23°  Junij,     ...  00  10  0 

44  Robertus  Walsh  of  Kinore  pro  uxore  24°  Junij,  .     .     .     .  01  00  0 


165 

£    s.  d. 

11  Sr  John  Jephson  25°  Junij, 01  00  0 

"Dna  Commitissa  de  Ellij,  26°  Junij, 01      0  0 

"  Ellena  Talloun  vidua  p'dicta  26°   Junii, 00     5  0 

"  Dna  Gorrine  p'dicta  28°  Junij, 01   00  0 

"  Sr  Thomas  Meredyth  p'dictus  p  eadera  29°  Junij,     ...  01  00  0 

"  Sr  John  Jephson  p'dictus  30°  Junij, 01  00  0 

"  Dna  Gorrine  p'dicta  1°  Julij, 01      2  0 

"  Matrona  Nightingale  2°  Julij, 00   10  0 

"Matrona  Nightingale  p'dicta  3°  Julij 00   10  0 

"Eadem  4°  Julij, 00  10  0 

u  Phoebe  Usher  uxor  primatis  p'dicta  4°  Julij, 01   10  0 

"  Dna  de  Elley  p'dicta  5°  Julii, 02  00  0 

"  Thomas /oye  5°  Julij, 00   10  0 

"  Matrona  Nightingal  p'dicta  6°  Julij, 00   10  0 

"Mr  Harrington  p  uxore  6°  Julij, 00   10  0 

"  Laurentius  Davis  7°  Julij, 00   10  0 

"Idem  8°  Julij,  . 00  10  0 

4<  Sr  Johannes  Jephson  p  famulo  9°  Julij, 00   10  0 

"Dna  de  Elley  p'dicta  10°  Julij, 01    00  0 

"Sr  Thomas  Meredith  p'dictus  £  eadem  uxore  10°  Julij,      .  01   00  0 

'*  Dfis  Vicecomes  de  Dunegarauane  11°  Julij,    .....  01   00  0 
"  Sr  /aithfull  aut  fidelis  /ortescue  <p  sua  Dna,  quse  diu  sur- 
ditate  et  tinnitu  auriu  detinebatur  et  liberata  est,  23° 

Julij, 08  00  8 

"  Sr  Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  29°  Julij, 01   00  0 

"  Dfis  Cancellareus  Adam.  Loftus  Vicecomes  Elley  5°  Augusti,  02     4  0 

"  Sr  Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  6°  Augusti, 01   00  0 

"  Dna  Gorrin  p'dicta  9°  Augusti, 01     2  0 

"Dns  Cancellareus  p'dictus  10°  Augusti, 02  00  0 

"  Sr  Johannes  Jephson  p'dictus  a  strangulante  angina  praeter 

complurium  spem  liberatus  13°  Augusti, 06  00  0 

"Mr  Magennis  15°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"Sr  Carolus  Vicecomes  Wilmouth  16°  Augusti,     ....  01   00  0 

"Thomas  Ingrame  19°  Augusti, 02     2  0 

"  Phillippus  Percival  p  sua  uxore  Catherina  Vssher  20°  Au.  01   00  0 

'*  Mr  Campion  p'dictus  g  filio  22°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"  Thomas  Luthrell  p'dictus  25  Augusti  a  torminibus  intes- 
tinoru  etvarij  generis  vermibus,  tineis,  ascaridibus,  lum- 
bricis,  necnon  vermibus  pilosis  et  hirsutis  copiose  excre- 

tis  liberatus, 03  00  0 

"DnsWilmouth  p'dictus  30°  Augusti, 01  00  0 

«  Thomas  Lutherell  p'dictus  3°  Septembris, 02  00  0 

"  Franciscus  Chambers  p  uxore  4°  Septembris,      ....  00  10  0 

"  Quida/aber  ferrarius  4°  Septembris, 00     5  0 

"Sr  Henricus  Spotwoorth  6°  Septembris, 01   00  0 

"  Thomas  Lutherell  p'dictus  8°  Septembris, 01  00  0 

u  Queda  generosa  nisi  degens  9°  Septembris, 00   10  0 

"  Johannes /eynch  actor  seu  atturnatus  11°  Septemb.     .     .  00  10  0 

"Johannes  Clark  actor  13°  Septembris,  .......  00  10  0 


166 

£    a.     d. 

«  Matrona  Boulton  14°  Septembris,     ........     00  1 1     0 

"  Johannes  /eynch  actor  p'dictus  16°  Septembris,  .... 

"  Guilielimus  Smith  p'dictus  a  graui  morbo  liberatus  23°  S.     05  00     0 

"  Matrona  Leake  p'dicta  24°  Septembris, 

"  Johannes  /eynch  p'dictus  25°  Septembris,  .     .....     00   10     0 

"  Edwardus  Johannis  Arthurius  p'dictus,  nephriticus  27° 

Sept<5 01  oo   o 

"  Vidua  Aissh  asthmati  obnoxia  29°  Septembris,   ....     00  10     0 

»  Michahel  Cole  p'dictus  30°  Septembris, 0100 

« /in thon  Parsons  2°  Octobris, : )  11     0 

"  Mr  Baker  p'dictus  4°  Octobris, 

"  Vidua  Aissh  p'dicta  5°  Octobris, 00   10     0 

"  Anna  Bellgon  6°  Octobris, 00   1 1      0 

"  Dna  Letitia  Gorrein  p'dicta  7°  Octobris, 01  00     0 

"Patritius  Morphew  8°  Octobris, 01  00     0 

"  Fynthon  Parsons  p'dictus  8°  Octobris, 00   1 1      0 

"  Georgius  Bodly  p'dictus  |>  Thoma  filio  9°  Octob.,    ...     00  10     0 

"Sr  Anthonius  Brabazon  p'dictus  9°  Octobris, 01   00     0 

"  Comes  Midise  p  Anna  Belgon  p'dicta, 01   00     0 

"  Sr  Anthonius  13 rabazon  p'dictus  p  filia  Anna  11°  Octobris,     00   10     0 

'•  Jacobus ;  Rickman  12°  Octobris, 00   17     0 

"  Sr  Anthonius  Brabazon  p'dictus  13°  Octobris,      ....     01   00     0 
"Matrona  Gualteri  Vssher  p  filio  Johanne  14°  Octob.     .     .     00  10     0 

44  Matrona  Leake  p'dicta  14°  Octobris, 00   10     0 

"  Johannes  /eynch  p'dictus  15°  Octobris, 00  10     0 

u  Matrona  Vssher  p'dicta  p  code  filio  16°  Octobris,     ...     00   10     0 

"  Patritius  Morphew  p'dictus  17°  Octobris, 01   00     0 

"Dna  Baltinglas  p'dicta  18°  Octobris, 01   00     0 

11  Dns  Primus  Vssher  p'dictus  23°  Octobris, 04  00     0 

"  Matrona  Boulton  p'dicta  25°  Octobris, 01    10     0 

"  Sr  Anthonius  Brabazon  p'dictus  27°  Octobris,     ....     01  00     0 

"  Mr  AVatterhouse  30°  Octobris, 01   00     0 

"Anna  Bellson  p'dicta  2°  Novembris, 01   00     0 

"  Dna  Baltinglas  p'dicta  3°  Novembris, 00  10     0 

"  Johannes  /eynch  p'dictus  5°  Novembris, 00  10     0 

"  Robertus  Bonny  p'dictus  minister  de  Larecor,  qui  diu 
vexabatur  melancholicis  symptomatibus,  tristitia,  pauore, 
nocturnis  spectris,  incertis  pneumatosis  humoribus  ubi<£ 
obortis  et  mox  euanescentibus  sponte,  suiFucatione  noc- 
turna  et  quoties  esset  in  obscuroloco,  deiecta  appetentia, 
stipato  aluo,  et  quandoq^,  dolore  abdominis;  hie,  sumptis 
idoneis  medicamentis  p  integru  mense  sub  finem  autumni, 
et  per  aliu  mensem  sequenti  vere,  excreuit  ingente  copia 
mucosi  et  pituitosi  humoris  sine  ullo  symptomatu  leua- 
mine,  tamen  ego  indicatione  t  proposito  firmiter  insistens 
sequentis  autumni  fine  eadem  medicameta  imperaui,  nee 
me  spes  fefellit,  tune  enim  latentemt  penitus  delitescen- 
tem  atrabiliariu  humore  copiose  excreuit,  deinde  tineas, 
ascarides,  lumbricos  et  diversaru  formaru  uermes,  ver- 


167 

£        5.      d. 

sicolores,    languinoses,   viuos   et  mortuos ;    exinde    ab 
omnibus  recensitis  symptomatis  liber  euasit  ;  p  impensa 

opera  prima  vice  dedidit  mihi  7°  Novembris,     ....  03     6  0 

"  Dna  Mayard  pro  filia  9°  Novembris, 0 1    00  0 

"Dn^  Adam  Loftus  p  filio  10°  Novembris, 00   10  0 

"  Loglen  o  Molone  10°  Novembris, 00     5  0 

"Nutrix  Ellinse  Arthur  11°  Novembris, 00     5  0 

"Dna  Loftus  p'dicta  p  code  filio  11°  Novembris,   ....  00   10  0 

"  Jacobus  Hey  gate  13°  Novembris, 00   10  0 

"  Johannes  /eynch  p'dictus  15°  Novembris, 00   10  0 

"  Andrewes  pseudo  decanus  LySicensis1  16°    Novembris,  00   10  6 

"Idem  17°  Novembris, 00   11  0 

"Arthur  Campion  p'dictus  17°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"Sf  Ed wardus  Harrys  iudex  p'dictus  18°  Novembris,      .     .  00   1 1  0 

"Rogerus  King  p'dictus  19°  Novembris, 05  00  0 

"  Michahell  Cole  p'dictus  20°  Novembris, 06  00  0 

"Patritms  Darcey  iuris  peritus  21°  Novembris,2   ....  02  00  0 

"Sr  Edward?  Harrys  p'dictus  21°  Novembris, 00  1 1  0 

"Jacob  Rickman  p'dictus  21°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Guilielimi  Parsons  22°  Novembris, 00   10  0 

"  Dns  Edwardus  Blaney  22  Novembris,  ........  01     0  0 

"  Sr  Carolus  Coote  iunior  23°  Novembris, 01   00  0 

"Johannes /eynch  p'dictus  23°  Novembris, 00   10  0 

"  Jaques  quidam  belga  24°  Novembris, 00   10  0 

uSr  John  Jephson  p'dictus  24°  Novembris, 00  12  6 

"  Mr  Tatloe  25°  Novembris, 00     7  0 

"Dna  Loftus  p'dicta  p  eodem  filio  27°  Novembris,     .     .     .  00  10  0 

"Dna  Loftus  de  Elley  p'dicta  30°  Novembris, 02  00  0 

"  Johannes  Dillon  iuris  peritus  p  uxore  1°  Decembris,    .     .  00   10  0 
"  Rogerus  Johns  Vicecomes  de  Rannalagh  p  filia  Maria  2° 

Dec., 01   00  0 

"  Idem  p  eadem  3°  Decembris, 01   00  0 

"  Dns  Dillon  De  Costellagh  4°  Decembris, 01   00  0 

"  Sr  Jacobus  Dillon  5°  Decembris, 01   00  0 

"  Jacobus  Heygate  p'dictus  6°  Decembris, 01  00  0 

"  Dns  de  Rannalagh  p  eadem  filia  7°  Decembris,    ....  01  00  0 

•  George  Andrews,  M.  A.,  Prsecentor  federate  Catholicks  of  Ireland,  1643. 

of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin,  was  an  Eng-  Darcy  was  an  able  lawyer,  and  M.  P., 

lishman,  and  had  been  educated  at  Ox-  and  his  "argument"  had  reference  to 

ford.  His  patent  for  the  Deanery  of  the  various  arbitrary  and  illegal  prac- 

Limerick  is  dated  August  31,  1603.  In  tices  of  Lord  Strafford  during  his  go- 

1635  he  was  promoted  to  the  Bishopric  vernment  of  Ireland.  Darcy himself 

of  Ferns  and  Leighlin.  See  Harris'  ed.  harshly  treated  by  the  Viceroy,  who 

of  Ware's  "  Bishops."  lost  his  head  soon  afterwards  by  judg- 

2  Patrick  Darcy,  Esq.,  M.  P.,  whose  ment  of  the  English  House  of  Lords 

memorable  argument  "  delivered  by  the  was  selected  by  an  inflamed  House  of 

express  order  of  the  House  of  Commons  Commons  to  bring  forward  all  the  viola- 

in  the  Parliament  of  Ireland,  9  Junij,  tions  of  the  laws  and  constitution  under 

1641,"  was  printed  at  Waterford  by  the  authority  and  sanction  of  Strafford's 

Thomas  Burke,  Printer  to  the  Con-  administration. 


168 

£  t.  d. 
««Sr  Richardus   Bolton    protobaro   Skecarij  Regij,   7°  De- 

cemb., 04  00  0 

"  Dim  de  Elley  p'dicta  9°  Decembris, 02  00  0 

«Sr  Lucas  /itzGerrald  14°  Decembris, 01  05  0 

«  Robertas 'Bonney  p'dictus  minister  16°  Decembris,  .     .     .  01  00  0 

44  Henricus  Beck  belga  18°  Decembris, 03  00  0 

44  Robertus  Collume  19°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"DAa  Newcomen  p  Catlierina  filia  p'dicta  21°  Decemb.,        .  00  6  0 

"Dim  de  Elley  p'dicta  24°  Decembris, 01  00  0 

"  Paulus  Davys  amanuensis  seu  Clericus  supremi  senatus, 

ab  intestinoru  tormentis  liberatus,  25°  Decembris,     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Robertas  Columba  p'dictus  26°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

44  Johannes /eynch  p'dictus  27°  Decembris, 00  15  0 

"Robertus'Columbe  p'dictus  30°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"  Ancilla  Matronae  Aissh  p'dictae  2°  Januarij, 00  10  0 

'•  Dim  Dillon  de  Costellagh  4°  Januarij, 01  00  0 

"Johannes  Blague  5°  Januarij, 00  10  0 

"Nicholaus  Skarley  p'dictus  p  filio  8°  Januarij,    ....  00  5  0 

"Jacobus  Heygate  p'dictus  9°  Januarij, 01  00  0 

"  Kyen  Collune  pro  quodam  infirmo  10°  Januarij,      ...  00  10  0 

"  Robertus  Bonney  minister  p'dictus  11°  Januarij,     .     .      .  00  10  0 

"  Edmund  Malloune  senator  p'dictus  13°  Januarij,     .     .      .  00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Barnevile  14°  Januarij, 01  00  0 

"Edmundus  Malloune  p'dictus  16°  January", 00  10  0 

"Daniell  Mollineaux  p'dictus  18°  Januarij, 01  00  0 

"Matrona  Johannis  Fourd  p  consanguinea  sua  20°  Januarij,  00  10  0 

u  Comes  Midioe  Guilielimus  Brabazon  p'dictus  22°  Januarij,  01  00  0 

"  Daniell  ^follineaux  p'dictus  24°  Januarij, 01  00  0 

"  Sr/aithiull  /ortescue  j>  uxore  p'dicta  28°  Januarij,      .     .  01  00  0 

"  Coniitissii  ^Iidia3  p  ancilla  honoraria  Sara  1°  februarij,       .  00  10  0 

"  Comes  Midiffi  p'dictus  2°  februarij, 01  00  0 

"  Sr  Robertus  Hanna  p  uxore  9°  februarij, 06  00  0 

"  Sr  Christopherus  Shiptorp  11°  februarij, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Leake  p'dicta  p  ancilla., 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Beale  13°  februarij, 00  5  0 

"  Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  15°  februarij, 01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Ware1  17°  februarij, 00  10  0 

"  Comes  Midise  p'dictus  19°  februarij, 01  00  0 

"  Mr  Rochetbrt  de  Keilbryde  20°  februarij,   ......  01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Ware  p'dicta  21°  februarij, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Pyers  vidua  p'dicta  22°  februarij, 01  00  0 

"  Comes  Midiae  p'dictus  24°  februarij, 01  00  0 

"  Mai rona  Ware  p'dicta  26°  februarij, 00  10  0 

44  Guilielimus  Baggott  27°  februarij 00  10  0 

•5r  Guilielimus  Cole  p  filio  Michaele  p'dicto  29°  febr.,  .      .  05  11  0 

"  Matrona  Ware  p'dicta  1°  Martij, 00  1 1  0 

4k  Comes  Midiae  p'dictus  2°  Martij, 01  00  0 

1  This  was  Lady  Ware,  wife  of  Sir  James  Ware,  already  mentioned. 


169 

£     s.  d. 

"  Sr  Richardus  Bolthon  p'dictus  p  dna  sua  4°  Martij,      .     .  03  00  0 

"Daniell  Mollineaux  p'dictus  6°  Martij, .  01  00  0 

"Decanus  Bernardus  p'dictus  p  uxore  8°  Martij,        .     .     .  00  1 1  0 

"Jacobus  Why te  pro  filio  9°  Martij, 00   10  0 

"Daniell  Mollineaux  p'dictus  11°  Martij,      , 01   00  0 

"  Purcell  in  foro  frumentario1  p  filio  13°  Martij,    ....  00     5  0 

"Mr  Latinep  Johanne  Latine2  13°  Martij 00     5  0 

"Henricus  Beck  Mercator  belga  p'dictus  16°  Martij,  .     .     .  03   12  8 

"Comes  Midite  p'dictus  19°  Martij, 01   00  0 

"Phrebe  Vssher  uxor  primatis  p'dicta  21°  Martij,       ...  00   10  0 

"  Smith  centurio  de  Gleanawen  23°  Martij, 00   10  0 

"  Honoraria  quae  elapso  hoc  anno  accepimus  adimplent  surnam 

£283   19s-  2d.  sterl.  pro  quibus  %  cunctis  aliis,  quas 

de  thesauris  infinites   suaa  bonitatis  in  nos  im- 

meritos    conferre    dignatur,  ipsi  Deo 

largitori  honor  t  gloria  a  nobis 

rependitur. 

Anno  Dni  1632. 

"  Sr  Randal  McSaurle  buy  vice  comes  Duneleiuse  t  comes 
Antrim3  in  aschytim  hydrope  incidit,  opera  mea  implo- 
rauit,  qua  libenter  impendere  voleba,  p  qua  5°  Aprilis 

elargitus  est  mihi  Septemdecem  libros  ster,       .     .     .     .  17  00  0 

"Johannes  Greinhame  p'dictus  13°  &  14°  Aprilis,        .     .     .  00  12  0 

"  Daniel  Mollineaux  p'dictus  16°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

"  Vidua  Staughton  17°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Carbrey  pro  filio  17°  Aprilis, 00  3  0 

"  Robertus  Bonney  minister  p'dictus  18°  Aprilis,  .     ...  01  10 

"  Vidua  Staughton  p'dicta  18°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Greinhame  p'dictus  19°  Aprilis, 00  6  0 

"  Cooper  cervisiarius4  19°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Newcomen  p'dicta  p  filia  20°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Markhame  pro  uxore  21°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Vidua  Staughton  p'dicta  22°  Aprilis, 00  00  0 

"  Sr  William  Vssher  senior  23 '  Aprilis, 02  00  0 

"  Matrona  Leake  p'dicta  23°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Dillon  juris  peritus  p'dictus  24°  Aprilis,  ...  00  10  0 

"Mr  Markhame  p'dictus  p  eodem  uxore  24°  Aprilis,  .     .     .  00  10  0 

"Johannes  Dillon  jurisperitus  p'dictus  24°  Aprilis,    .     .     .  00  10  0 

"Mr  Markhame  p'dictus  p  eadern  uxore  24°  April.,  .      .     .  00  10  0 

"Vidua  Staughton  p'dicta  25°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

1  i.  e.  Purcell  of  the  Corn  Market.  whom  the  Earl  of  Essex,  when  Viceroy 

2  Probably  of  Morristown  Lattin,  Co.  of  Ireland  (who  with  the  Earls  of  Kil- 
Kildare,  where  the  family  is  now,  and  dare  and  of  Ormonde  routed  the  Scots 
has  been  seated.  in  1557,   and  received  several  of  them 

3  Sir  Randal   Mac  Donnell,    Earl   of  into    protection    afterwards),   adorned 
Antrim,  Viscount  and  Baron   Dunluce  with   a  golden   sword   and   silver   gilt 
of  the  Glynnes,  knighted  by  Lord  Faulk-  spurs,  &c.    See  Aaron  Crossly's  "  Irish 
land  when  Lord   Deputy.     He  was  de-  Peerage." 

scended    from     Donald    Mac  Donnell,  *  i.  e.  A  brewer. 


170 

£    s.  d. 

Dna  Ware  pro  ancilla  27°  Aprilis, 00  1 1  0 

Matrona  Springhame  27°  Aprilis, 00     3  0 

Johannes  Dillon  jurisperitus  p'dictus  28°  Aprilis,    ...  00  10  0 

Sr  Johannes  Clothworthey  28°  Aprilis 01     7  0 

Mr  Chambers  29°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

Sr  Guilielimus  Vssher  p'dictus  29°   Aprilis, 

4  Mr  Neues  examinator  p'dictus  p  uxore, 00     5  6 

1  Mr  Man  warring  p'dictus  30°  Aprilis, 00   10  0 

*  Vidua  Staugh ton  p'dicta  30°  Aprilis, 01  00  0 

'Johannes  Dillon  p'dictus  jurisperitus  30°  Aprilis,     ...  00   10  0 

1  Robertus  Meredith  pro  uxore  1°  Maij, 01  00  0 

"  Sr  Jacobus  Ware  Senior1  1°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  2°  Maij, 01  00  0 

"  Guilielimus  Buckley  2°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Mr  Man  warring  3°  Maij, 00   10  0 

"  Sr  Jacobus  Ware  Senior  p'dictus  3°  Maij, 00   10  0 

"Johannes  Latine  pletoricus  et  maniacus  4°  Maij,      ...  01   10  0 

"  Matrona  Aylmer  4°  Maij, 01  00  0 

"  Daniell  Mollineaux  5°  Maij, 01   00  0 

41  Mr  Drayton  minister  5°  Maij, 00   14  0 

"  Comes  Midi*  p'dictus  6°  Maij, 01  00  0 

"  Guilielimus  Buckley  p'dictus  6°  Maij, 01   00  0 

44  Guilielimus  Vssher  iunior  7°  Maij, 01  00  0 

"Mathaeus/oord  pro  filia  Catherina  8°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Symons  pro  fratre  suo  8°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"Matheus/oordpfilia9°Maij,       0010  0 

"  Guilielimus  Buckley  p'dictus  p  uxore  10°  Maij,      .     .     .  00  10  0 

"Mr  Markham  p'dictus  p  eadem  uxore  10°  Maij,  ....  00  10  0 

"  Pa tricius  Darcey  iurisperitus  p'dictus  11°  Maij, .     .     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Petrus  Turner  11°  Maij, 00   11  0 

"  Matrona  Elmer  de  Lyons2  12°  Maij 01  00  0 

41  Daniell  Mollineaux  p'dictus  13°  Maij, 01  00  0 

14  Mr  Gouldingp  filio  13°  Maij, 00     5  0 

"  Richardus  Talbott  de  Mallahoyde3  cachecticus,  sorbuticus 

et  obstructionibus  lienis  obnoxius,  14°  Maij,    .     .     .     .  0110  0 

44  Mr  East  p  uxore  p'dicta  15°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"M'Watterhouse  pro  filio  16°  Maij, 00    2  6 

"  Johannes  Dillon  p'dictus  16°  Maij, 00  10  0 

*4  Richardus  Talbott  p'dictus  p  uxore  17°  Maij,      .     .     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Dns  Jacobus  Vssher  pseudoprimas  p'dictus  18°  Maij,    .     .  01  00  0 

"  M  East  p'dictus  p  eadem  uxore  19°  Maij, 00  10  0 

44  Mr  Cooper  p'dictus  ceruisiarius  20°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Symon  p  fratre  p'dicto  21°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Nugent  p  uxore  22°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Daniel  Mullineaux  p'dictus  23°  Maij, 01  00  0 

'  Sir  James  Ware,  the  elder,  and  fa-  branch  of  the  ancient  Catholic  family  of 
ther  of  the  illustrious  Irish  antiquary.  Aylmer. 

1  Lyons,  in  the  county  of  Kildare,  3  The  ancestor  of  the  Lord  Talbot  of 

was  the  ancient  patrimony  of  the  elder  Malahide,  county  of  Dublin. 


171 

£     «.  d. 

"  Maims  o  Dawrin1  de  Thoumonia  24°  Maij, 01  00  0 

"  Sr  Dudleus  Northon  p  filio  naturale  Johanne  25°  Maij,      .  00  10  0 
44  Sr  Guilielimus  Talbott  baronettus.  quern  calculo  vessicae  la- 
borasse  contra  alioru  Doctoru  opinione,  et  refragantibus 

ipsis  Lythotomis,  manifeste  demons traueram,  26°  Maij, .  01     2  0 

"Mr  Nugent  p'dictus  p  uxore  27°  Maij, 01     2  0 

'  Mr  Rochfort  £  filio  28°  Maij 00  10  0 

*  Mr  Nugent  p  uxore  p'dicta  29°  Maij, 00     5  0 

'  Mr  Symons  p'dictus  29°  Maij,        00  10  0 

'  Kobertus  Bonney  p'dictus  minister  de  Laurecore  31°  Maij,  00  10  0 

4  Nicholaus  Loftus  p'dictus  p  uxore  1°  Junij,    ...»     .  00  10  0 

"  Quasda  generosa  ruri  degens  2°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  Daniell  Mollineaux  p'dictus  4°  Junij, 01  00  0 

"  Quida  inuenis  scriba  5°  Junij, 00     5  0 

41  Sr  Anthonius  Brabazon  frater  comitis  Midensis  p'dictus  5° 

Junij 02  00  0 

"  Comitissa  Eingalliae  6°  Julij, 01  00  0 

"  Comes  Midiae  p'dictus  7°  Junij,    .     .     , 01  00  0 

44  Sr  Johannes  Philpott  iudex,  nephriticus  8°  Junij      .     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Johannes  Cleark  p'dictus  p  se  9°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"Matrona  Leake  p'dicta  10  Junij, 00  10  0 

44  Mr  Laddame  iurisperitus  11°  Junij,        00   10  0 

44MrHogaine  12°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"Mr.  Laddame  13°  Junii, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Cleark  p'dictus  14°  Junij, 00  10  6 

"  Mr  Nugent  p'dictus  p  p'dicta  uxore  15°  Junij,    .     .     .     .  00  10  0 

44  Idem  pro  eadem  16°  Junij, 01     2  0 

44  Mr  Laddame  iurisperitus  p'dictus  17°  Junij, 00  10  0 

44  Comes  Midiae  p'dictus  18°  Junij,       .     .    . 01  00  0 

44  Thomas  Ley  scriba  in  officio  Pipae  19°  Junij,       ....  00  10  0 
"  Matroa    Moyens     uxor    pseudo  Episcopi   p   nepote   20° 

Junij, 00     6  0 

"Matrona  Greynhame  p  filio  Thoma  p'dicto  20°  Junij,  .     .  00     5  0 

"  Johannes  Cleark  p'dictus  21°  Junij,      . 00  10  0 

4' Matrona  Neylp  filiola  22°  Junij,  .     ..." 00     5  0 

"  Comitissa /ingalliae  p'dicta  22°  Junij, 00  10  0 

44  Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  23°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  Georgius  Andre wes  p'dictus  pseudo  decanus  Lyfrlicensis 

23°  Junij, 00  10  0 

44  Doctor  Hoyle  puritanus  pro  sorore  24°  Junij,      ....  01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Greynhame  p'dicta  p  Abigaele/ulk  26°  Junij,     .  00     6  0 

44  Dfia  Parsons  p'dicta  28°  Junij, 01   00  0 

44  Johannes  Cleark  p'dictus  29°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"Matrona  Moyens  p  nepote  p'dicto  30°  Junij, 00     6  0 

44  M'  Rochefort  p  filio  p'dicto  2°  Julij,     .......  00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Cleark  p'dictus  3°  Julij, 00   10  0 

1  Daverin  is  one  of  the  most  ancient      met  with  to  this   day  in  the  county  of 
names  in  Thomond,   and  is  frequently       Clare. 


172 

£    s.  d. 
"  4°  Julij  p  fectus  fui  Lyrrlicu  ubi  a  diQsis  segris  obtinui 

£8  10*.  ster.  deinde  7°  August!  insequentis    reuersus 

sum  Dubliniu,1        08  10  0 

"  Johannes  Carbrey  p  filio  Ignatio  8°  Augusti,       .     .     .     .•> 

"  Robertus  Bonney  p'dictus  minister  14°  Augusti,      ...  02  1 

"Christopherus/itz  Williams  17°  Augusti, 00   10  0 

"Mr  Carbrey  p'dictus  p  uxore  17°  Augusti, 00     2  6 

"Johannes  Greynhame  p'dictus  5  uxore  19°  Augusti,     .     .  00     5  0 

"  Edwardus  Johannis  Arthurius  nephriticus  23°  Augusti,    .  01  00  0 

"  Johannes  Rawson  p'dictus  25°  Augusti,      ......  01    12  6 

"  Christianus  Borr  p'dictus  p  filio  Johanne  27  Augusti,      .  00  10  6 

"  Idem  p  eodem  filio  29°  Augusti, 00   15  6 

"  Gilbertus  Dumbill  p  ancilla  2°  Septembris, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Greynham  p'dictus  p  uxore  p'dicta  5°  Septem.,  00   10  0 

"  Nicholaus  Eustace  7°  Septembris, 01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Bale  p'dicta  7°  Septembris, 00     5  0 

14  Doctor   Robertus  Vssher  p'dictus  p  filio   Edwardo   10° 

Septem., 00  10  0 

"Johannes  Greinham  p'dictus  12°  Septembris, 00  10  0 

"Doctor  Robertus  Vssher  p'eodem  filio  13°  Septem.,       .     .  00     8  0 

"Johannes  Greinham  p'dictus  p  eadem  uxore  14°  Sept.,       .  00  10  0 

"  Idem  p  eadem  15°  &  16°  Septembris, 01  00  0 

"  Johannes  /oord  p  puero  Barrott  generoso  17°  Septemb.,    .  00   10  0 

"  Decanus  Barkley  p  uxore  20°  Septembris, 06  00  0 

"  Archideaconus  Matcheson  24°  Septembris, 00.15  0 

"  Mr  Graunt  de  Ardemach  30°  Septembris, 01   00  0 

u  Mr  May  de  Charlemont  p  filia  1°  Octobris, 10  00  0 

"Dfis   Jacobus   Vssher    pseudo    primas   Ardmachanus   7° 

Octob., 07  00  0 

"Comitissa/ingallise  p'dicta  9°  Octobris, 01   00  0 

"  Comes  Antrim  p'dictus  11°  Octobris, 01   00  0 

"  Robertus  Bonney  p'dictus  minister  13°  Octobris,     .     .     .  00  10  Q 

"Johannes  Greinham  p'dictus  14°  Octobris, 00     6  0 

"Comitissa/ingallise  p'dicta  16°  Octobris, 01  00  0 

"  Nicholaus  Eustace  p'dictus  17°  Octobris, 01    10  0 

"Johannes /oord  p  iuvene  Barrott  p'dicto  18°  Octob.,     .     .  00   10  0 

"Comitissa/ingallise  p'dicta  19°  Octobris, 01   00  0 

"  Laurentius  Davys  p'dictus  20°  Octobris, 00   10  0 

"  Doctor  Robertus  Vssher  p  sorore  uxoris  21°  Octobris,  .     .  00   10  0 

"  Mr  Rochefort  de  Kilbride  23°  Octobris, 01   00  0 

uDna/ortescue  p'dicta  p  filio  24°  Octobris, 01   00  0 

"  Dna  Dillon  p  filia   sua  Bes/olioth  25°  Octobris,       ...  01   00  0 

'*  Nicholaus  Eustace  p'dictus  26°  Octobris, 00  15  0 

"  Quida  ruri  degens  27°  Octobris,        00     3  0 

i  Dr.   Arthur    kept  separate  memo-       These  memoranda  are  written  on  slips, 

randa  of  the  names  of  his  patients  in  and  are  preserved  in  the  MSS. ;  we  may 
Limerick,  and  of  the  fees  paid  to  him  by  refer  to  them  in  due  course,  as  they  are 
them  during  these  periodical  visits.  worth  preserving. 


173 

£     *.  (L 

"  Richard  us  Wade  27°  Octobris, 00     5  0 

"  Robertus  Cusake  de  Rathgare  28°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes /againe  de/elthrom  p  nepote  herede  29°  Oct.,    .  01    00  0 

"  Robertas  Cusake  p'dictus  30°  Octobris, 00   10  0 

"Mr  Rochefort  de  Kilbride  p'dictus  31°  Octobris,       .     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Robertas  Cusake  p'dictus  1°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Dns  Jacobus  Vssher  pseudo  primas  p'dictus  2°  Novemb.,  02  00  0 

"  Robertus  Cusake  p'dictus  3°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Moyens  p'dicta  3°  Novembris, 00     5  0 

"  Robertus  Cusake  p'dictus  4°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Samuelis  Smyth  5°  Novembris,      .......  00  10  0 

"  Dfia  Parsons  p'dicta  6°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Carbrey  p  famulo  7°  Novembris, 00     5  0 

"  Matrona  Barneville  de  Droumniagh1  7°  Novembris,       .      .  00     3  0 
"  Dns  Yicecomes  Merion  p  filia/rancisca  8°  Novemb.,      ..0120 

1  f  Patritius  Darcey  iurisperitus  p'dictus  9°  Novembris,   .     .  01  00  0 

"  Nicholaus  Eustace  3?  uxore  10°  Novembris, 01   00  0 

"  Mr  Barringthon  p'dictus  studiosus  11°  Novembris,  .     .     .  00  10  0 

"Robertus  Cusake  p'dictus  12°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"Sr  Johannes  Cloth worthey  p'dictus  13°  Novembris,       .     .  01  00  0 

"  Guilielimus  Brickdall  14°  Novembris,    .......  00   10  0 

'*  Quida  promus  ceruisiae  14°  Novembris,       00  10  0 

"  Robertus  Cusake  p'dictus  15°  Novembris,       .....  00  10  0 

"  Idem  p  uxore  Alsona  Georgii  Sexten  16°  Novembris,   .     .  00  10  0 

44  Matrona  Phoebe  Yssher  p'dicta  17°  Novembris,    ....  01  00  0 

"  Robertus  Cusake  <p  p'dicta  uxore  18°  Novembris,     .     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Idem  p  eadem  19°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes /oord  p'dictus  p  iuuene  Jacobo  Gould  20°  Nov.,  02  00  0 

"  Robertus  Cusak  p  p'dicta  uxore  22°  Novembris,      ...  00     6  0 

"  Idem  p  eadem  24°  Novembris, 00     6  0 

"  Mr  Arthurus  Blaney  25°  Novembris, 01  00  0 

"  Robertus  Bysse  p'dictus  p  filio  Arthuris  26°  Nov.,       .     .  00  10  0 

"  Dns  Henricus  Baro  Blaney  28°  Novembris, 0150 

"  Matrona  Phoebe  Vssher  p'dicta  30°  Novembris,    ....  01  00  0 

"Mr  Arthurus  Blaney  p'dictus  1°  Decembris, 01    00  0 

"  Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  p  filio  Johanne  2°  Decembris,    ...  00  10  0 

"  Dns  Vicecomes  Dominicus  Sarsfeeld  Judex  3°  Decembris,  00  10  0 

"  Sr  Johannes  Jephson  4°  Decembris, 01   00  0 

"  Johannes  Cleark  p'dictus  p  amico  5°  Decembris,       ...  00     5  0 

"  Doctor  Robertus  Vssher  p'dictus  p  uxore  6°  Decemb.,      .  00  10  0 

"  Idem  p  eadem  7°  Decembris, 00  1 1  0 

"  Mr  Winkfeeld  p  uxore  8°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  /oord  p'dictus  p  Henrico  Neill  9°  Decemb.,    .     .  01   00  0 

"Johannes  Southwell  p  filio  Johanne  10°  Decembris,       .     .  01   00  0 

"  Edwardus  Janes  senator  p  filio  1 1°  Decembris,   .     .     .     .  01  00  0 

1  The  Barnwells  flourished  among  the  several  families  of  the  name  enjoyed 
chief  gentlemen  of  Meath  before  and  extensive  possessions  in  that  county  in 
down  to  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  and  that  reign,  and  afterwards. 

2  A 


174 


£     ». 

d. 

44  Diia  Dillon  p'dicta  p  filio  Carey1  12°  Decernbris,      .    -V.  V 

01  00 

0 

"  Mr  Winkfeeld  p'dictus  p  uxore  13°  Decembris,   •     •     *  -« 

00  10 

0 

44  Dna  Dillon  p'dicta  p  eodem  suo  filio  13°  Decembris,     .     . 

01  00 

0 

44  Johannes  Southwell  p'dictus  p  eodem  filio  14°  Decemb.,    . 

00  10 

0 

"  Matrona  Moyens  p'dicta  p  filia  15°  Decembris,     .     .     .     . 

00  10 

0 

44  Dna  Joanna  Dillon  vidua  Costellogallan  16  Decem.,       .     . 

01  00 

0 

"  Catherina  Newcomen  p  se  17°  Decembris,  ...... 

00  10 

0 

"  Dna  Mayeard  p'dicta  p  filia  18°  Decembris,     ....-„ 

00    5 

0 

44  Thomas  Ley  p'dictus  p  servo  18°  Decembris,       .      .     .     , 

00   10 

0 

44  Dna  Mayeard  p'dicta  p  eade  filia  19°  Decembris,      .     .      . 

00  10 

0 

44  Nicholaus  Whyte  p  sua  uxore  Dna  Blundle  23°  Decemb., 

01   00 

0 

44  Matrona    Plunkett  p'dicta  p   nepote  ex   fratre  Panthine 

26°  Decembris,  

00     5 

0 

44  Das  Vicecomes  Tath  p  se  29°  Decembris,        

02  00 

0 

"  Dfis  Vicecomes  Dillon  de  Keilkenny  West  1°  January, 

01   00 

0 

01  00 

0 

"  Dns  Vicecomes  de  Baltinglas  p'dictus  p  filio  4°  Januarij,  . 

00  10 

0 

44  Dns  Vicecomes  Duneleiuse  7°  Januarij  

05  00 

0 

"Georgius  Deuenish  p'dictus  p  uxore  2d.  9°  

00  10 

0 

"  Mr  Geyves  de  Drohedah  p  uxore  10°  Januarij,     .     .     ,     . 

01  00 

0 

"Matrona  Phoebe  Vssher  p'dicta  14°  Januarij,        .     .     .     . 

03  00 

0 

"Johannes  chyvers  iurisperitus  p'dictus  16°  Januarij,      .     . 

00  10 

0 

44  Matrona  Baggott  1  7°  Januarij,     ....,..,. 

00   10 

0 

"  Doctor  Robertus  Vssher  p  uxore  p'dicta  18°  Januarij, 

00   10 

0 

44  Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  p  ancilla  19°  Januarij,     

00  10 

0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  filio  Thoma  20°  Januarij,  ,     .     . 

00  10 

0 

"Jacobus  Rawson  nephriticus,  p'dictus  22°  Januarij,      .     . 

01   00 

0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dictus  p  eodc  filio  24°  Jan.,     .     . 

00  10 

0 

"Mr  Winkfeeld  p'dictus  p  uxore  25°  Januarij,  

00  10 

0 

*  Johannes  Greinhame  p'dictus  28°  Januarij,      

00    6 

0 

'  Mr  Wingfeelde  p'dictus  p  p'dicta  uxore  29°  Januarij, 

00  10 

0 

'  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dictus  p  eodem  ministro  30°  Jan., 

00  10 

0 

'  Dna  Dillon  de  Kilkenney  West  p'dicta  31°  Januarij,     .     . 

01  00 

0 

*  Johannes  Greinham  p'dictus  p  nepote  l°/ebruarij,  .     .     . 

00    6 

0 

'Dna  Dillon  p'dicta  2*  /ebruarij,    

01   00 

0 

1  Mr  Wingfeelde  p'dictus  p  uxore  p'dicta  3°/ebruarij,    .     . 

00   10 

0 

4  Johannes  Blake  jurisperitus  Galuiensis2  4°  Febr.,     .     .     . 

01  00 

0 

'  Dna  Dillon  p'dicta  5°  /ebruarij,     

01  00 

0 

4  Jacobus  Browne  scriba  p  uxore  6°  /ebruarij,  

00  10 

0 

'Josephus  Ware  p  filia  7°  /ebruarij,    

00  10 

0 

4  Sr  Robertus  /oord  8°  /ebruarij,     

01   00 

0 

4  Dua  Dillon  p'dicta  9°  /ebruarij,     .     . 

01   00 

0 

'Sr  Robertus  /oord  p'dictus  1  1°  /ebruarij,     

01   00 

0 

4  Edmundus  Smyth  scriba  in  officio  P.  Perciual  13°/et>r.,  . 

00     5 

0 

>  This  son  became  the  rather  cele-      lands  in  Killnalongerty, 

Vv«.n4-st<1    /''~1~__1    n  T-»MI__              1            /.                ,     .                                                                                                O           V1 

&c.,  &c.,  in 

the 

brated  Colonel  Carey  Dillon,  who  fought       county  of  Tipperary. 

afterwards  on  the  side  of  Cromwell,  and          2  Counsellor  John  Blake,   of  Galway 

was  rewarded  with  grants  of  forfeited       who  was  eminent  in  his  profession. 


175 

£  s.  d. 

"Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  p  famulo  14° /ebruarij, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dictus  p  famula  Thoma  Litle  15° 

/ebruarij, .  .  00  1 1  0 

"  Johannes  Harrys  Scriba  hypochondriacae  melancholiae  ob- 

noxius  l6°/ebruarU> 00  10  0 

"  Johannes /oord  p'dictus  p  iuuene  Plunkett  17° /ebrij.,  .  01  00  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dict.  p  eode  famulo  18° /ebruarij,  01  00  0 

"Sr  Thomas  Dutton  p  filio  20°/ebruarij, 00  1 1  0 

"Johannes  Chyvers  iurisperitus  p'dict.  21° /ebruarij,  .  .  00  6  6 

"  Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  22° /ebruarij, 00  10  0 

u  Matrona  Allen  iunior  23° /ebruarij, 00  10  0 

"  Sir  Thomas  Button  p'dict  p  eode  filio  24° /ebruarij,  .  00  10  0 
"Jacobus  Browne  scriba  p'dictus  p  uxore  p'dicta  25° /e- 

bruarij, 01  00  0 

"Edwardus  Arthurius  p'dictus  26° /ebruarij, 00  1 1  0 

"  Edmundus  Smyth  scriba  p'dictus  26° /ebruarij,  ....  00  5  0 

"Ellina  Talloun  vidua  p'dicta  27° /ebruarij,  ......  00  5  0 

"  Sr  Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  27  VebruariJ>  •  •  •  •  •  01  00  0 

"  Sr  Thomas  Button  £  sua  Dna  1°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"Sr  Richardus  Bolthon  protobaro  Skeckarij1  p  filio  Johanne 

2°  Marti, 02  00  0 

'*  Mr  Vnderwood  studiosus  3°  Martij, 00  5  0 

"  Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  4°  Martij, 0110 

"S'Dudleus  Northon  p'dictus  5°  Martij 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Nugent  6°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Vnderwood  p'dictus  6°  Martij, 00  5  0 

"  Matrona  Barneueiul  de  Leaspopul  7°  Martij, 02  00  0 

"  Beniamen  Columb  decanus  Ecclesise  sti.  Patricij  Dubli- 

nensis  p  uxore  secunda  8°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"  Diis  Jacobus  Vssher  pseudo  primas  praedictus  10°  Martij,  .  01  00  0 

"  Dna  de  Merioun  11°  Martij 02  00  0 

"  Dna  Clothworthy  iunior  12°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Johannes /oord  p  iuuene  Plunkett  p'dicto, 01  00  0 

"  Johannes  Dumbill,  scriba,  hepatis  Discrasia  calida  multu 

bilis  p  ventu  generante,  incidit  in  Diarrhoeam  Diuturna 

1  contumacissima  :  14°  Martij, 02  00  0 

"  Beniamen  pseudo  decanus  Columb  p'dict  p  eadem  uxore 

15°  Martij, 00  1 1  0 

"  Mr  Vnderwood  studiosus  p'dictus  15°  Martij,  ....  00  5  6 

"Matrona  Springhame  p'dicta  17°  Martij, 00  5  0 

"  Quida  ruri  veniens  17°  Martij, 00  2  6 

"Mr  Edmundus  Harrys  19°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"Richardus  Talbott  de  Mallahoyde  p'dictus  22°  Martij,  .  0011  0 

*'  Mr  Franciscus  Clotworthey  23°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Dns  Thomas  Roper  Vicecomes  de  Baltinglas  p'dictus  24° 

Martij, 01     2  0 

•  His   father   appears  to   have  been       and  antiquary,   a  retainer  of  the  Duke 
Edmund  Bolton,  the  celebrate  d  historian       of  Buckingham,  and  a  Catholic. 


176 

£     a.     d. 

"  Thomas  Johannis  Arthurius  p'dictus  £  uxore  24°  Martij,      00   1 1     0 
"  Ellina  Talloim  p'dicta  vidua  24«  Martij, '• 

"  Honoraria  huius  prseteriti  anni  admiplent 

Sumam  £233  105.   Od.  ster.,  In  quibus  1 

cseteris  subsidiis  tenuitati  nostrse  sub- 

leuande  pspectis  diuina  supplices 

agnoscimuspuidentia,  qua  nobis 

ppitia  semper  futura  deprecamur. 

(To  be  Continued.) 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  JOURNAL  OF  THOMAS  DINELEY, 
ESQUIRE,  GIVING  SOME  ACCOUNT  OF  HIS  VISIT  TO 
IRELAND  IN  THE  REIGN  OF  CHARLES  II. 

COMMUNICATED  BY  EVELYN  PHILIP  SHIRLEY,  ESQ.,  M.  A.,  WITH 
NOTES  BY  THE  HON.  ROBERT  O'BRIEN,  AND  THE  REV.  JAMES 
GRAVES. 

(Concluded  from  p.  91.) 

Ross  IloE1 — In  the  County  of  Thomond,  Barony  of  Tullagh,  and 
parish  of  Kilmurry,  part  of  the  Estate  of  ye  Honble  the  Lord  Vis- 
count Clare,  now  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  John2  Fennel,  is  a  fair 
seat  scituate  among  good  Lands  and  Orchards,  with  a  very  pleasant 
and  profitable  large  Poole  or  Lough  on  the  one  side  thereof 
abounding  with  large  Trouts.3 

1  Ross  Roe  castle  was  built  by  Shyda  the  two  sons  of  Lord  Inchiquin,  advanced 

Camm  Mac  Namara,  who  was  the  per-  against   the  Earl,  plundered   the    sur- 

son  who  founded  the  Abbey  of  Quin  in  rounding  country,  and  burned  the  town 

1402.   His  son,  Fingin  Mac  Namara,  had  of  Ross  Roe.     This  lay  in  the  middle  of 

a  son  Loughlin,  who  had  a  son  Florence,  the  Mac  Namaras'  territory,  who  had 

father  of  Florence,  who  died  1602,  and  submitted   to    the    Earl    of  Thomond, 

mortgaged  it  to  Nicholas  Stritch  of  Li-  covenanting  "that  they  should  ever  con- 

merick.     This  Florence  had  a  son,  Fin-  duct  themselves  faithfully  and  without 

neen  Mirgagh,  who  died  1st  May,  1621,  malice  towards  the  Earl  and  his  heirs," 

leaving  Nydar,   his  son  and  heir,  who  and  "that  they  would  not  wage  war  or 

redeemed  Stritche's  mortgage,  and  ob-  oppose  the  Earl  or  his  heirs  for  ever;1' 

tained,  on  5th  June,   1629,    livery  and  thus  admitting  the  new  English  law  of 

seizin  of  his  father's  possessions.      He  succession. 

obtained  license  to   alienate  to  Daniel  In   faith   of  this     undertaking,     the 

O'Brien,  afterwards  Lord  Clare.  whole  of  the  east  of  the  country,  from 

In  1564,  during  the  contest  between  Scarriffto  Rinanna,  rose  to  aid  the  Earl, 

Donald  O'Brien,  the  elected  Prince  of  but  the  invaders  having  secured  a  safe 

Thomond,  and  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  position,  slew  about  100  of  the  Earl's 

the  latter  happened  to   be  staying   at  soldiers  ;  however,  not  feeling  able  to 

Ross  Roe  Castle,  when  Donald  O'Brien,  contend  against  the  increasing  forces 

with  the  aid  of  his  younger  brother,  and  which  were  assembling  from  all  parts, 


177 


Here  are  also  great  plenty  of  Wilde  Fowle. 

About  a  mile  and  half  from  hence,  by  water,  between  the  Castles 
of  Rallahin  and  Rathfoelane  ;  this  lough  of  Ross  Eoe  runs  under 
ground  for  half  an  English  mile,  being  opposed  by  hills  and  rocks, 
at  last  breaks  out  sofarr  off  that  the  possessor,  John  Colpoys,  Esqr., 
a  very  worthy  English  Gentleman  sayes,  (as  the  Spanyards  do  of 
the  river  Ama),  that  he  feeds  sheep  and  herds  upon  a  Green-Bridge. 

Camden  takes  notice  of  one  much  more  remarkeable  than  this 
of  the  river  Mole,  in  Surrey,  undermineing  for  severall  miles  to- 
gether. 

There  is  also  another  Green-bridge  in  WALES,  the  river  under- 
mineing the  Earth  disembogues  itself  into  the  sea  ;  there  some 
give  out  that  they  have  put  in  a  living  Goose  into  the  place  where 
the  water  falls,  and  that  she  hath  swam  out  at  the  other  end,  but 
with  loss  of  all  its  feathers. 

This  Stream  of  Ross  Roe  Lough  at  its  riseing  again  from  Mr. 
Colpoys  his  Green-bridge  turnes  a  mill  belonging  to  John  Cooper, 
Esqr. 

CaftU. 


G.  Knocpogue4  Castle.  D.  Clownherne  Castle.  E.  Tomenlough  Church  ruines. 
V.  Cragamore  hills.  K.  Knochalappa  (Anglice),  the  Hills  bed,  being  an  hil 
whence  the  Prospect  was  taken.  T.  The  Lough,  or  Water. 


and  probably  having  done  as  much  mis- 
chief as  they  intended,  they  returned  by 
night  across  the  Fergus  river,  "  carry- 
ing with  them  their  preys  and  acquisi- 
tions, without  receiving  wound  or  in- 

Jurv-" 

By  the  Petty  Census,  it  appears  that 
Colonel  William  Purefoy  was  put  in  pos- 
session of  the  Castle  of  Ross  Roe,  but 


at  the  Restoration  it  was  granted,  19°, 
Chas.  II.,  with  Knock  Bryan,  to  Viscount 
Clare,  who  mortgaged  it  to  George 
Mathews  of  Thomastown,  and  after- 
wards to  Colonel  Robert  Maud  of  Dun- 
drum,  which  mortgage  having  been 
paid  by  John  Clignett,  he  obtained  a 
lease  in  1671  from  Lord  Clare. 

Colonel  William  Purefoy  did  not  al- 


178 


Quix  or  QUTN  Town  distant  from  Ross  Roe  castle  four  English 
miles:  here  it  was  that  March  29,  1601,  Captain  Flower  from  Li- 
merick lodged  and  fought  the  Connaught  and  Ulster  Rebells,  who 
were  drawn  to  an  head  to  invade  Munster  with  the  assistance  of 
Teg,  sonne  and  heire  to  Sr  Tirloghe  O'Brien.  The  Lord  Tho- 
monds  company  here  hurt  &  slew  many,  among  which  of  note  were 
Walter  Burk,  son  to  the  blind  Abbot,  and  Tegg  aforenamed. 

Quiif  TOWN  is  twelve  miles  from  Limerick,  six  from  Six  mile- 
bridge,  4  from  Rallahine  Castle  in  the  road  to  Galloway.  It  hath 
nothing  worth  the  note  of  a  Traveller  but  the  mines  of  an  Abbey, 
which  1  sketcht  off  on  the  other  leafe. 

There  are  two  faires  a  year,  which  in  times  past  were  famous 
for  quarelling  of  two  families  of  numerous  ofspring  hereabouts,  viz., 
the  Molounys  and  Macnamarras,  in  which  8  persons,  Ulster  men, 
were  kill'd  and  buried  in  one  hole. 

It  is  storied  also  that  at  the  drinking  of  a  small  barrell  of  sack, 
that  the  Ulster  men  being  absent  often,  and  thought  to  go  out  to 
Icake  between  every  other  glass  :  It  seems  they  went  out  to 
drinke  Usque  bath,  Aqua  vita3  so  call'd,  yey  say.d  to  warme  their 
stomachs  which  they  thought  would  be  overcooled  with  the  sack, 
so  accustomed  they  are  to  extraordinary  hott  liquors  more  than  any 
people  I  ever  heard  of. 


together  relinquish  his  claim  ;  for  in  1683 
he  had  a  suit  with  Lord  Clare  about 
Ross  Roe,  but  the  forfeiture  of  Lord 
Clare's  estates  andtlie  new  grants  made 
to  Burton,  Westby,  and  Mac  Donnell, 
put  an  end  to  the  matter,  for  Ross  Roe 
and  Knock  Brien  were  included  in  their 
grants. 

2  "  Robert"  is   written  in  the  margin 
here. 

3  The  stream  which  flows  from  Ross 
Roe,  Fenloe,  and  Ballycar  lakes,  is  only 
a  small  one  in  summer,  passing  under 
ground  between  Ballycar  (late  belong- 
ing to  the  Colpoys  family)  and  New- 
market, and  again  under  the  demesne 
at  Carrigoran,  the  seat  of  Sir  Augustine 
Fitz  Gerald.     There  are  several  other 
instances  in  the  county  of  Clare  arising 
from  the  cavernous  formation   of  the 
limestone    which  prevails    through   the 
centre    of  the    county    of    Clare— the 
"  Toomeens"  in  the  demesne  of  Kiltanon 
being  the  most  remarkable  in  the  county. 
In  wet  weather,  the  inability  of  these 
passages  to  carry  off  the  water  causes 
the  nu  i  erous  Turloghs  which  exist  in 
Clare. 

4  Knapogue    Castle:    built  by   John 
Mac  Macon  Mac  Shyda  Mac  Namara,  and 


was,  in  1576,  in  the  hands  of  Turlough 
O'Brien. 

In  1584  John  Mac  Namara  was  in 
possession,  who,  7th  August,  1585, 
signed  the  composition  with  Sir  John 
Perrott,  as  John  Mac  Namara  of  Knap- 
pock,  called  Mac  Namar  of  West  Clan- 
cullen.  This  branch  of  the  family,  who 
added  Finn  to  their  name,  were  lords  of 
West  Clancullen,  and  possessed  the  cas- 
tles of  Dangan,  Iviggen,  which  gave  the 
name  to  the  barony  before  it  was  changed 
to  Bunratty,  and  also  the  castle  of  Crat- 
loe,  Moell,  &c. 

Knapogue  was  in  possession  of 
Daniel  Mac  Namara  Finn  in  1641,  who 
died  in  1652,  but  his  castle  was  given 
over  by  the  Cromwellians  to  Arthur 
Smith,  Daniel's  son.  John  Finn  having 
been  declared  a  Protestant  in  1655,  he 
obtained  a  settlement  at  Doonmulvihil 
Castle  in  Inchicronan  parish,  and,  after 
the  Restoration,  his  son  (36  Chas.  II.) 
obtained  a  grant  of  considerable  estates. 

From  this  branch  of  the  Mac  Namara 
sprung  the  Mac  Namara  of  Doolen,  now 
represented  in  chief  by  Colonel  Francis 
Mac  Namara  of  Ennistymon. 

The  castle  is  covered  in  and  occupied 
by  Lord  Dunboyne. 


179 

The  faires  of  Quin  are  of  black  Cattle,  as  Cows,  Oxen,  &c., 
which  are  so  called  here. 

The  Abbey5  was  anciently  of  the  Order  of  St.  Francis ;  here  are 
seen  the  ancient  Vaults  &  Burial  places  of  the  Mac  Namarras6  & 
the  Molounys,  and  hither  they  are  brought  if  they  dye  in  the 
Kingdom  to  be  interr'd  with  their  Ancestors. 


The  Ruins  of  QUIN-ABBY  lately  harbouring  some  Friers  of  the  order  of 
Sl.  Francis. 


4  In  ancient  times  there  was  an  abbey 
at  this  place,  of  which  there  is  now  no 
vestige  ;  but  there  is  a  record  of  the 
death  of  Scannlan,  Abbot  of  Tuaim 
Finlocha,  i.  e.  the  mound  of  the  bright 
lake,  in  944. 

This  parish  formed  a  part  of  the 
territory  of  Traddery,  which,  in  the 
middle  of  the  10th  century,  was  taken 
possession  of  by  the  Norsemen  or  Danes, 
with  the  intention  of  making  it  a  gar- 
rison, from  which  to  conquer  all  Mun- 
ster.  To  secure  their  position,  they 
raised  a  fence,  extending  from  the  Ard- 
sollus  river  to  near  Six-mile-Bridge; 
and  on  the  top  of  the  hill  of  Mooghaun, 
near  Tomfenlough  church,  are  still  the 
remains  of  three  walls  of'circumvallation, 
enclosing  a  large  space  of  ground,  and 
called  the  Danish  Fort.  From  this  point 
there  is  a  view  commanding  the  whole 
plain  country  of  Clare,  from  the  bound- 
ary of  Connaught  to  the  river  Shannon  ; 
from  Limerick  to  Foynes. 

Afterwards  Traddery  was  occupied 
by  the  clann  Delbhaeth  of  the  Ui  Neill 


Buidhe,  whose  chief  residence  was  at 
Fion  Luaragh. 

e  The  building  of  this  abbey  is  dated 
from  1402,  by  some,  but,  according  to 
Ware,  it  was  built  in  1433,  in  which 
year  Pope  Eugene  IV.  granted  a  license 
to  Sioda  Cam  Mac  Namara,  Lord  of 
Clancuillen,  to  place  the  friars  of  Strict 
Observance  in  this  monastery,  they 
being  the  first  body  of  the  Franciscan 
Order  who  accepted  those  rules  in  Ire- 
land. 

Mac  Namara  directed  that  this 
should  be  the  burial  place  of  himself  and 
of  his  tribe.  He  died  in  1444. 

In  1586,  the  castle  of  Quinhi  was  in 
the  possession  of'Donough  Mac  Murrough 
O'Brien,  the  monastery  of  Quin,  with 
all  its  manors,  advowsons,  lands,  &c., 
having  been  granted  to  Sir  Turlogh 
O'Brien  of  Ennistymon. 

Dinely  is  wrong  in  stating  that  Sir 
Turlogh  O'Brien's  son,  Teige,  was 
slain  at  Quin,  for  though  Teige  did  join 
in  this  raid,  notwithstanding  the  loyalty 
of  his  father,  he  was  wounded  at  Inch- 


180 


On  the  South  side  on  ye  Floor  of  the  Abbatial  Church  of  Quin- 
Barony  is  seen  this  monument.7 


THIS    IS    THE     SNTIENT    TVMBE     OF  • 


On  the  R'  hand  of  the  Altar  at  the  East  end  of  the  Abby 
Church  of'Quin  is  seen  this  monument  of  black  marble  of  the 
MoLouNYS.8  Family  very  ancient. 


icronan,  and  removed  to  the  Earl  of 
Clanrickard's  castle  of  Leitrim,  where 
he  died  about  a  week  after. 

To  this  abbey  retired  William  Burke, 
the  blind  abbot,  who  had  claimed  to  be 
the  Mac  William  of  Connaught,  but  be- 
ing expelled  by  Sir  Richard  Bingham, 
afterwards  wandering  from  territory  to 
territory,  found  refuge  here,  and  was 
buried  in  the  abbey  in  1598. 

On  the  accession  of  King  James  I., 
when  the  Roman  Catholics  supposed  their 
religion  was  to  be  restored,  they  repaired 
this  abbey. 

1611.  Sir  William  Fisher,  Bart.,  ob- 
tained a  grant  of  the  friars'  mill  and 
some  land  on  the  east  side  of  the  river 
the  estate  of  the  abbey. 

Bishop  Pocock  states  that  it  "  was  one 
of  the  most  entire  monasteries  that  he 
had  seen  in  his  time  in  Ireland.  The 
high  altar  was  entire,  with  an  altar  on 
each  side  of  the  chancel.  On  the  south 
side  is  a  chapel  with  three  or  four  altars, 
and  on  one  therein  is  a  Gothic  figure 
in  relief  of  some  saint.  On  the  north 
side  is  a  fine  monument  of  one  of  the  Mac 
Namaras  of  Rane.  On  a  stone  by 
the  high  altar  the  name  of  Kenedy  ap- 
pears in  large  letters." 

'•The  cloister  is  peculiar  in  having 
buttresses  between  the  openings.  There 
are  apartments  on  three  sides  of  it — the 
refectory,  the  dormitory,  and  another 
grand  room  on  the  north  of  the  chancel, 
with  vaulted  rooms  under  them  all.  To 


the  north  of  the  large  room  is  a  closet, 
which  leads  through  a  private  way  to  a 
very  strong  round  room,  the  walls  of 
which  are  nearly  ten  feet  thick.  In 
the  front  of  the  monastery  is  a  building 
which  seems  to  have  been  an  apartment 
for  strangers  ;  and  on  the  south-west 
are  two  other  buildings." 

"  On  the  wall,  near  the  high  altar,  is 
a  representation  of  the  Crucifixion  in 
stucco." 

7  The  inscription  on  this  monument  is 
printed  letter  for  letter  with  the  origi- 
nal.   The  last  word  may  read  CONOGH- 
[ER]  M  [AC]  NAMARRA. 

8  There    were     several    families    of 
O'Mullonys  proprietors  in  the  barony  of 
Tulla  previous  to  the  forfeitures  of  1641. 
Teige  O'Mullony  obtained  land  under  the 
Cromwellian  Settlement  at  Killdonnel- 
ballagh,  in  the  parish  of  Tulla,  of  which 
lands  he  obtained  a  grant  at.  the  Resto- 
ration. Another  Connor  O'Mullowny  was 
settled  by  the  Cromwellians  at  Knocka- 
doon,  in  the  same  parish. 

To  endow  the  church  at  Tulla,  Mac  Con 
Mac  Namara,  20°  Richard  II.,  granted 
the  then  rector  and  his  successors,  21 
plough  lands ;  amongst  which  was  Kil- 
tanon,  and  an  Inquisition  was  held  by 
directions  of  Sir  Richard  Bingham  in 
1585,  who  found  that  this  alteration  was 
against  the  Statute  of  Mortmain.  No 
action  seems  to  have  taken  upon  this 
till  1611,  when  an  Inquisition  was  held 
before  Nicholas  Kenny,  the  Escheator- 


181 


[Here  is  given  a  drawing  of  a  mural  monument,  still  extant, 
and  here  erroneously  attributed  to  the  Molouny  family.     It  is  the 

Mac  Namara  monument,  as 
proved  by  its  inscription  :  the 
drawing  shows  a  table  monu- 
ment surmounted  by  three  tre- 
foil-headed niches,  over  which 
is  an  entablature  supported  by 
four  pilasters.] 

Opposite  to  the  last  Monu- 
ment are  seen  the  Remaines  of 
that  belonging  to  the  ancient 
Family  of  the  MACNAMARRAS.* 

[Here  there  is  also  given 
the  view  of  Castle  Mang  from 
the  "  Pacata  Hibernia."] 

The  4th  of  Novembr  1600, 
Thomas  Oge  Fitz  Gerald,  con- 
stable of  this  Castle10  for  Jamas 
Fitz  Thomas,  after  his  submis- 
sion, delivered  up  unto  the 
young  Earle  of  Desmond,  James, 
lately  restored  in  blood,11  and 
from  the  Tower  of  London 
sent  by  her  Matie  into  Ireland. 

This  Castle12  [Clonrond]  and 
the  lands  belonging  thereto  are 
part  of  the  Estate  of  Henry 
Earle  of  Thomond,  Governor 
of  this  County,  whose  Deputy 

Governor,  George  Stammers,  Esqr.,  now  High  Sheriff  1681,  holds 

it  of  the  sd  Earle. 


general ;  but  he  could  not  get  the  jurors 
to  find  the  mortmain,  for  which  they 
were  subjected  to  great  trouble ;  but 
having  afterwards  summoned  a  more 
compliant  jury,  the  lands  were  declared 
forfeited  to  the  Crown,  by  reason  of  mort- 
main ;  and  in  1613  granted  to  Nicholas 
White  of  Dublin,  from  whom  Kiltenan 
and  other  lands  passed  to  Sir  Rowland 
Delahoyd.  His  heir,  Oliver  Delahoyd, 
having  taken  up  arms  with  the  Irish  in 
1641,  lost  the  estate,  which  was  granted 
to  Philip  Bigoe.  In  1713,  William,  Earl 
of  Inchiquin,  made  leases  of  an  exten- 

2 


sive  tract  of  country  to  James  Molony 
of  Kiltannon,  including  the  Abbey  of 
Corcomroe,  in  Burren,  the  fee  of  which 
was  afterwards  purchased. 

The  present  generation  are  deeply  in- 
debted to  the  present  James  Molony  of 
Kiltannon,  Esq.,  whose  public  spirit  and 
generous  expenditure  has  opened  for 
them  the  great  tract  of  mountain  country 
lying  between  Tulla  and  Gal  way ;  which, 
though  thickly  inhabited,  was  almost  in- 
accessible for  traffic,  as  well  as  for  his 
efforts  to  introduce  manufactures  and 
the  growth  of  flax. 


B 


182 

It      s  founded  by  Lionel  Duke  of  Clarence,  sirnamed  Ant- 
werje,  the  chlf  city^f  Flanders,  &  the  Marquisate  of  the  Holy 

CtONROND13  CASTLE. 


Empire,  where  he  was  borne,  3d  son  of  Ed.  3,  Earle  of  Ulster  & 
Lord  of  Connaught,  the  first  who  came  over  under  the  title  of  Lord 


9  This  monument  is  not  now  extant. 
There  were  several  families  of  the 
Mac  Namaras,  who  had  considerable 
possessions  in  the  time  of  James  L,  when 
the  inquiry  took  place  as  to  the  title  of 
the  Clare  proprietors,  viz. 

Mac  Namara  Reagh  of  Fartane,  now 
corrupted  to  Fort  Anne,  represented  the 
principal  branch,  who  had  been  lords  of 
East  Clancuilen.  Mac  Namara  Finn  of 
Knapogue  represented  the  lords  of  West 
Clancuilen.  Mac  Namara  of  Montallen, 
of  whom  was  Sir  John  Mac  Namara, 
Knt. ;  Mac  Namara  of  Ross  Roe,  before 
mentioned;  Mac  Namara  of  Roslaragh; 
Mac  Namara  of  Kilkishen ;  Mac  Namara 
of  Danganbrack  ;  Mac  Namara  of  Bally- 
nahinch ;  Mac  Namara  of  Derrymore ; 
Mac  Namara  of  Coolreagh  ;  most  of 
whose  castles  are  still  standing. 

10  i.  e.  Castle  Mang. 

11  This  was  the  "  Queen's  Earl." 

11  Before  the  English  Invasion,  the  chief 
place  in  this  district  was  at  DromclifP, 


where  there  are  still  remains  of  a  round 
tower.  This  was  the  territory  of  the 
Hy  Cormaic,  whose  tribe  name  was 
(XHehir. 

After  the  English  took  possession  of 
Limerick,  at  the  end  of  the  13th  cen- 
tury, the  kingdom  of  Thomond,  which 
had  before  then  included  all  North  Mun- 
ster,  was  reduced  to  the  present  county 
of  Clare,  and  part  of  Tipperary.  Over 
this  Donough  Cairbreach  O'Brien  ruled 
as  chief,  and  he  located  himself  at  Clon- 
road,  where  he  founded  the  monastery  of 
Inish-Clonroad.  From  that  time  Clon- 
road  became  one  of  the  mensal  castles  of 
the  chiefs  of  Thomond  ;  and  during  the 
disputed  successions  of  the  following  cen- 
tury the  possession  was  the  constant 
subject  of  contention. 

In  1551,  on  the  death  of  Murrough 
O'Brien,  who  had  surrendered  his  princi- 
pality to  Henry  VIIL,  Clonroad  was 
occupied  by  his  nephew,  Donough 
O'Brien,  who  had  succeeded  to  the  Earl- 


183 


Lieutenant  of  ye  Kingdome  of  Ireland  in  the  year  1361,  and  in  the 
Reign  of  his  Eoyall  Father  Edward  the  3d;  he  died  in  the  year 


Clare  Castle,  its  Prospect  from  the  Road  between  it  and  the  Town  of  Six  mile 

Bridge. 


dom  of  Thomond,  while  Murrough's 
son  only  succeeded  to  the  barony  of 
Inchiquin.  This  Donough  was  tanist, 
and,  by  right  of  Irish  succession,  would 
have  been  prince  ;  but  as  the  grant  of  the 
earldom  had  only  been  for  life,  he  sought 
out  and  obtained  in  1552,  a  grant  of  the 
earldom  to  him  and  his  issue  male,  and 
at  the  same  time  obtained  a  grant  of  all 
the  honours  and  land  which  his  uncle 
held  in  right  of  the  chieftainships  to  him- 
self and  heirs. 

His  next  brother,  Donald,  who  was 
tanist,  and  therefore  next  in  succession 
to  these  mensal  honours — for  up  to  this 
time  all  the  ancient  customs  had  been 
maintained,  the  new  peers  having  still 
been  "  The  O'Brien"  in  this  territory — 
became  incensed  at  this  deprivation,  and 
being  joined  by  other  uncles  of  Lord 
Inchiquin,  then  a  minor,  attacked  Earl 
Donough  at  Clonroad,  when  they  burned 
and  plundered  the  town,  so  that  the 
Earl  was  obliged  to  go  into  a  tower  to 
protect  himself;  but  he  did  not  survive 
for  more  than  two  months,  some  ac- 
counts stating  that  he  was  slain  by 
Donald. 

On  the  Earl's  death,  Donald  was  inau- 
gurated Prince,  and  possessed  himself  of 


the  castles  of  Clonroad  and  Clare,  to  the 
exclusion  of  his  nephew,  Connor,  now 
Earl  of  Thomond  ;  but  (1585)  the  Earl 
of  Sussex  having  entered  Thomond,  took 
the  castle  of  Clonroad,  and  put  the  Earl 
in  possession.  In  1570,  when  Earl  Con- 
nor drove  Sir  Edward  Fy tton  out  of  Tho- 
mond for  venturing  to  hold  a  Court  of 
Justice  in  Ennis,  thereby  setting  aside  his 
chieftain  rights,  the  Earl  of  Ormond  was 
sent  by  the  Queen  to  chastise  the  Earl, 
who,  unable  to  compete  with  his  force, 
surrendered  Clonroad  and  all  his  manors, 
except  the  barony  of  Ibrickane,  and 
went  to  England  to  make  submission  to 
the  Queen.  Sir  Edward  Fytton,  in  the 
meantime,  revisiting  Ennis,  placed  a  gar- 
rison in  Clonroad.  Earl  Connor  having 
been  favourably  received  by  the  Queen, 
was  restored  to  his  lands ;  but  from  that 
time  Bunratty  Castle  appears  to  have 
been  the  chief  residence  of  the  Earls  of 
Thomond. 

Not  a  vestige  of  the  castle  of  Clon- 
road now  remains — the  last  worked 
stones  having  been  removed  during  the 
present  century,  towards  building  the 
house  at  Derrymore,  and  residue  used 
in  buildings  in  Ennis,  or  repairing 
roads. 


184 

1361  and  lieth  buried  by  hia  fyrst  wife  Elizabeth  daughter  and 
hefreof W  Ham  de  Burgh,  Earle  of  Ulster,  ,n  the  Chancell  of  the 
Priory  Church  of  Augustine,  in  Clare  in  the  County  oi  Suffolk. 


The  Lord  Ireton  and  !Sr  Charles  Coot,  in  the  year  1651,  beseiged 


13  The  settlement  of  Donough  Cair-       lowed  by  his  founding  the  Abbey  of  Imp 
breach  O'Brien  at  Clonroad,  was  fol-      Cludna  TCampoba,  for  Franciscan  Fri- 


185 

and  took  this  Castle  of  Clare,  and  the  most  considerable  pass  in  the 
Countrey,  whence  they  then  sent  a  summons  to  the  City  of  Gal- 
loway. 

The  ABBEY  of  CLARE,14  which  lyeth  between  the  Castle  of  that 
name  and  the  Town  of  Ennis,  is  also  thought  to  have  been  founded 
by  the  sayd  Duke  of  Clarence,  for  the  love  he  bore  and  in  memory 
to  a  Priory  of  that  name  in  Suffolk  where  his  first  wife  lyes  buried, 
after  whose  death  he  was  married  again  unto  Violenta  the  sister  of 
John  Galeas  Duke  of  Myllane  whereto  he  journied. 


Ruins  of  the  Abbey  of  Clare. 

S'   Castle' 
G.  Abbey. 


Clare 
^Iare> 


[Here  are  given  extracts  from  Stow  and  Camden.J 


ars  Minors,  and  received  many  subse- 
quent benefactions  from  the  Princes  of 
Thomond,  who  were  generally  buried 
here.  In  1375  Edward  III.,  moved  with 
compassion  from  the  poverty  of  this 
house,  and  scarcity  of  provisions  in 
these  parts  of  the  country,  granted  a 
license  for  the  guardian  and  friars  to 
enter  the  English  Pale  to  purchase  pro- 
visions. 

In  1543,  Dr.  Nelan  petitioned  Henry 
VIII.  for  a  grantof  this  monastery,  "not 
yet  dissolved,"  for  having  "travelled 
much,"  to  induce  O'Brien,  Prince  of  Tho- 
mond, to  make  his  submission,  which 
petition  was  granted,  but  only  for  a 
limited  time,  for  the  Crown  was  in  pos- 
session in  1577- 

In  1621  William  Dongan  obtained  a 
grant  of  the  House  of  the  Junior  Bro- 
thers, called  Grey  Friars  of  Innis,  with 
one  church,  one  belfry,  one  grave-yard, 
one  mill,  one  salmon  weir,  one  eel  weir, 
two  messuages  with  stone  walls,  and 
twelve  cottages  with  land  on  Clonroad. 


All  the  land  about  Ennis  belonged  to 
the  Earl  of  Thomond's  manor  of  Clon- 
road, and  almost  wholly  leased  to  the 
Gore  family  in  perpetuity. 

i*  This  is  in  the  parish  of  Killimer,  ba- 
rony of  Clonderlaw,  and  was  therefore  in 
the  territory  of  East  Corca  Bhaiscin, 
the  Lord  of  whom,  1585,  who  signed  the 
composition  with  Sir  John  Perrott,  was 
Teige  Mac  Mahon ;  otherwise,  "MacMa- 
hon."  In  the  return  of  the  castles  of 
Clare  supplied  to  Sir  Richard  Bing- 
ham  in  1586,  the  castle  of  Doneygrock 
was  possessed  by  Teige  Mac  Muircer- 
tagh  Cam  (Mac  Mahon).  In  1620,  the 
Castle  of  Donogoroge  was  included  in 
the  Earl  of  Thomond's  Patent,  and  was, 
in  1641,  in  possession  of  his  tenant,  Wil- 
liam Brigdale. 

During  the  Cromwellian  period,  Mr. 
Walter  Hickman  was  placed  in  this 
castle,  and  after  obtained  from  the  Earl 
of  Thomond  a  lease  of  same  for  ninety 
years,  with  the  condition  to  supply  a 
Protestant  horseman,  with  good  horse, 


186 


In  this  seige  [of  Glyn  Castle,  see  p.  188  infra},  July  the  8  a 
Cannon  happened  to  be  cloy'd,  which  by  the  President  of  Mouns- 
ter  Carews  advice,  was  thus  cleer'd,  and  which  may  serve  for  In- 
strucion  of  all  Souldiers  upon  the  like  occasion :  he  commanded 
that  the  Peice  as  it  was  should  be  abased  at  the  tayle  and  the 
muzzle  mounted  as  high  as  they  could,  the  gunner  to  give  her  a 
full  charge  of  powder  wth  a  shot  after  it  then  to  give  fire  at  ye 
mouth  thereof,  by  which  the  Touch  hole  was  presently  cleer'd. 

[Here  is  drawn  a  Jacobean  mural  monument  surmounting   a 
table  or  altar  tomb,  on  the  former  the  word  THOMAS  POWER,  .  .  . 
A.  D.  1622.] 

Remarkeable  also  at  this  seige  that  the  President  having  the 
Knight  of  the  Valley's  eldest  son  &  heire  of  this  Castle,  a  child  of 
6  years  of  age  in  his  possession,  to  affrighten^the  Castle  guard  he 
caused  the  child  to  be  sett  upon  one  of  the  Tops  of  the  Gabions, 
sending  them  word  that  they  should  have  a  fair  mark  to  bestow  their 
small  shott  upon.  To  which  the  Constable  answer'd  in  unbecom- 
ing terms  thus: — The  place  is  open  where  he  was  born,  and  the 
K"*  of  the  Valley  may  have  more  sonnes.  But  the  President  (in- 
tending no  such  cruelty,  as  knowing  that  ye  report  of  the  Cannon 
would  have  shaken  the  childs  Limbs  in  peices)  caused  him  to  be 
taken  down,  &  then  began  the  Battery.  After  which  a  breach  was 
made  &  it  assaulted  by  Captain  Flower;  a  sally  was  made  by  the 
Castle  Guard  Rebells,  the  constable  slayne,  and  his  head  mounted 
on  a  stake  9.  July,  1600.  The  castle  was  wonn,  some  of  the  rebells 
were  putt  to  the  sword,  and  others  leaped  off  the  Battlements  of 
the  Castle  into  the  water  underneath  it. 

This  Castle  upon  the  Shannon  most  of  the  time  of  the  Rebellion 
had  in  it  one  Anthony  Arthur,  one  of  the  great  merchants  of  that 
name,  as  a  Generall  factor  of  the  city  to  vent  merchandize  &  como- 
dities  to  the  Rebells. 

Five  miles  distant  from  this  castle  is  the  Castle  of  Carigfoile. 

The  comand  of  this  Castle  of  Glyn  for  Queen  Elizabeth  was 
given  in  charge  Anno  1600,  to  Captain  Nicholas  Mordant. 

SHANNON  River,  whose  Source  is  in  the  North,  and  ends  in  the 
South- West  of  Ireland,  is  famous  for  being  navigable  for  near  200 
miles  from  sea  to  sea,  from  James  Town  where  it  takes  its  rise 
(were  it  not  for  one  rock  within  5  miles  of  Limerick),  to  Loophead 
neer  Malbay,  a  mad  bay  dangerous  for  Shipping  ;  here  it  is  sd  that 
6  of  the  Spanish  fleet  in  .88  were  wreck't. 


sword,  case  of  pistols,  and  other  ne-       a  roof,  with  slate  or  shingle,  and  also  to 
cessaries  for  a  month ;  to  plant  100  ap-       erect  a  house  l£  stories  40  ft.  by  18  ft. 
pie  trees,  and  to  cover  the  castle  with 


187 

This  River  is  famous  for  the  best  Herrings,  Salmon,  Trouts  of 
44  Inches  long,  Lampreyes,  Breem,  &c. 

In  the  marley  mudd  in  this  river  are  sometimes  found,  14  or  15 
foot  deep,  Elkes  and  Bufulo's  Skeletons. 

The  chiefest  Cities  and  Walled  Towns  on  the  Shannon  are 
Limerick,  Athlone,  a  wall'd  Town  and  considerable  Pass.  Fort 
Falkland,  built  when  my  Lord  Falkland  was  lord  deputy,  and  thence 
it  took  its  name. 

Upon  this  river  is  the 

CASTLE  of  CORGRACJE  which  in  the  reigne  of  Q.  Elizabth  be- 
longed to  one  Mr.  Trenchard  an  Undertaker,  a  castle  of  great 
strength,  which  being  surrendred  to  her  Maties  use,  the  President 
of  Mounster  gave  the  comand  thereof  to  Mr.  Oliver  Stevenson. 


H.  Donogoroge  Castle,  belonging  to  Walter  Hickman,  Esq.  T.  Glin,  Major  Fitz- 
Geralds,  in  the  county  of  Limerick.  K.  County  of  Kerry.  A..  Kilcerdane 
Point.  D.  Knock-Ray,  an  hill  so  called.  S.  Burrawn  Lands,15  belonging  to 
Capt".  John  Cocks. 

From  the  Hill  marked  with  the  letter  R,  about  300  paces  from 
ye  castle,  is  the  loudest  and  plainest  Eccho  that  I  ever  heard ;  it 
resounds  rather  louder  than  the  voice  or  noyse  you  utter. 

GLYN  CASTLE,  marked  above  with  the  letter  T,  is  next  to  be 
considered,  and  whose  state  as  it  was,  when  it  was  taken  by  Sr. 
George  Carew  under  Queen  Elizabeth,  8  July  1600,  I  have  sett 
down  from  another  draught  on  ye  other  side. 


Js  Barrane  Lands,  in  the  parish  of  Kil- 
limer,  barony  of  Clonderalaw,  was,  pre- 
vious to  1641,  the  property  of  Sir  Teige 
M'Mahon,  Bart.,  who  succeeded  in  find- 
ing favour  with  the  Crown,  and  obtained 
some  of  the  ancient  patrimony  of  the 
M'Mahons  of  East  Corca  Bhaiskin. 
Here  Thomas  Clancy  was  located  under 


the  Cromwellian  Settlement,  but  the 
lands  at  the  Restoration  were  granted  to 
James  Nixon. 

Benjamin  Cox,  Esq.,  of  Mount  Plea- 
sant, Kilrush,  J.  P.,  is  the  present  re- 
presentative of  Captain  John  Cocks, 
above  mentioned,  though  not  the  owner 
of  Barrane. 


188 


[Here  is  given  a  view  of  Glyn  Castle  from  the  «  Pacata 
Hibernia."] 

GLYN-CASTLB  in  the  county  of  Limerick  now  (viz.  1681)  in  the 
hands  of  Major  Fitz  Gerald,  is  distant  from  Ballmtane  5  miles. 


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<y 


In  Queen  Elizabeth's  dayes,  viz.,  5.  July  1600,   was  beseiged. 
Captain  Gawen  Harvy  lay  at  Anchor  before  it  5.  July  1600.    Can- 


•6  This  was  the  chief  seat  of  the 
M'Mahons,  Lords  of  West  Corca  Bhais- 
cin,  which  composed  the  present  ba- 
rony of  Moyarta,  and  part  of  Ibric- 


kane.  The  composition  of  1585  was 
signed  by  Tyrrelagh  M'Mahon  of  Moy- 
arta, chief  of  his  name  in  West  Corca- 
vaskin.  When  the  rents  under  this 


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non  were  brought  by  water  from  Limerick  by  the  Earl  of  Thomond 
when  they  intrenched  before  ye  castle  between  it  and  ye  Shannon 
River.  The  6th  of  July  1600,  a  Demy  Cannon  and  Sacre  were 
posted  so  as  to  do  Execucon  ag*  the  Castle,  without  ye  loss  of  a 
man  on  ye  beseigers  side,  by  reason  of  a  Parley  for  that  end  (as  a 
blinde)  enterteined. 

The  Constable  of  the  Castle  7nth  July,  as  a  Thomond  man 
borne,  and  natural  follower  of  ye  Earle  of  Thomond,  propos'd 
something  for  ye  Earles  safety,  which  ye  Earle  mock't  at,  advizing 
him  to  deliver  up  the  Castle  to  ye  Queen,  which  ye  President  of 
Munster  hearing  sent  him  this  last  words,  that  since  he  had  refused 
that  noble  Earles  offer,  that  he  was  in  hope,  before  2  dayes,  to  have 
his  head  from  his  shoulders,  which  fell  out. 

Loopshead19  is  a  Promontory  belonging  to  y6  Honble  the  Lord 
Viscount  Clare  not  farr  off  the  mouth  of  the  Shannon,  [here  is] 


composition  were  sought  to  be  collected, 
Teige  Caech  M'Mahon,  Lord  of  Carrig- 
aholt,  committed  outrages  upon  the 
crown  collectors.  As  this  not  only 
affected  the  crown's  claim  of  10s.  a 
quarter,  but  also  the  claim  of  5s.  from 
each  quarter,  payable  to  the  Earl  of 
Thomond,  he  sent  his  brother  to  remon- 
strate, but  Teige  being  then  absent  in 
Kerry,  the  castle  was  occupied  by  his 
wife  and  a  beautiful  daughter,  to  whom 
the  Earl's  brother  soon  became  attach- 
ed. Teige  having  returned  when  O'Brien 
was  out  hunting,  ordered  that  he  should 
be  seized  on  entering  the  courtyard, 
which  was  on  the  sea-side.  As  soon  as 
O'Brien  was  aware  of  the  attempt,  he 
leapt  his  horse  over  the  wall  into  the 
foaming  sea,  and  although  wounded, 
reached  the  strand,  which  extends  for  a 
mile  to  the  east  of  the  castle.  The  Earl 
of  Thomond,  in  revenge,  possessed  him- 
self of  some  of  M'Mahon's  castles.  In 
1600,  Teige  Caech  crossed  the  Shannon 
and  joined  O'Donnell,  who  had  marched 
to  the  south  to  meet  the  Spaniards, 
where  he  was  soon  after  killed  accident- 
ally by  his  own  son  Turlogh,  who  fled 
to  Spain. 

In  1601,  July  8,  Daniel  O'Brien,  bro- 
ther of  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  received 
the  Queen's  letter  for  a  grant  of  the 
Castle  of  Carrigaholt,  and  such  manors, 
castles,  &c.,  as  Teige  M'Mahon  and  his 
son  Turlogh  were  seised  of  in  West 
Corcavaskin,  at  the  time  of  their  enter- 
ing into  rebellion.  This  Sir  Daniel 
O'Brien  was  created  Viscount  Clare  in 
1662.  The  large  estates  which  had 


2c 


been  acquired  by  the  Clare  family  were 
forfeited  by  Daniel,  third  Viscount,  in 
1688,  and  the  estates  sold.  Carrigaholt 
passed  to  the  Burtons,  one  of  the  co-pur- 
chasers, and  was  the  residence  of  Sir 
Francis  N.  Burton,  brother  of  the  Mar- 
quis of  Conyngham,  who  repaired  the 
castle,  and  his  grandson  now  enjoys  it. 

17  Querin  is  in  the  parish  of  Moyarta, 
and  in  1620  was  included  in  the  Earl  of 
Thomond's  patent. 

Isaack  Vanhogarden  was  placed  here 
at  the  Cromwellian  Settlement,  but  at 
the  Restoration,  the  Earl  of  Thomond 
leased  the  lands  to  John  Wright  and 
Humphrey  Rogers  for  ninety-nine  years, 
with  the  condition  that  they  should  build 
a  stone  house  with  chimneys,  one  and 
a-half  stories  high,  40  ft.  by  18  ft., 
floored  with  boards,  and  covered  with 
slate  or  shingles.  The  improvements 
made  by  this  tenant  are  stated  to  have 
cost  £600. 

18  Hog   Island  lies  between  Scattery 
Island  and  Kilrush,  and  formed  part  of 
the  manor  of  Kilrush. 

Dinely  has  given  no  particulars 
of  Scattery  Island,  which  has  a  long 
history  of  its  own.  Its  ruins  are  fully 
described  by  Dr.  O'Donovan,  in  a  letter 
dated  9th  December,  1839,  now  depo- 
sited in  the  Royal  Irish  Academy,  with 
the  documents  from  the  Ordnance  Of- 
fice. 

19  Cuchullin's  Leap,  in  the  parish  of 
Kilballyowen,   barony  of  Moyarta,  Co. 
Clare.     In  this  remote  parish  there  are 
remains    of  several  churches    of  great 
antiquity. 


190 

a  stone  whereon  if  any  one  turnes  round  upon  the  heele,20  and 
thinks  on  any  other  of  cither  sex  for  an  husband  or  wife,  are  sayd 
never  to  faile  of  their  thought;  on  this  several  have  wrote  and 
engraven  their  names,  but  none  ever  ventur'd  to  make  the  turne, 
the  stone  being  so  dangerous  an  eminence  over  the  water  that  'tis 
thought  impossible. 

KiLuusH21  is  a  Town  in  ye  county  of  Clare,  belonging  to  the 
ri«'ht  Honble.  Henry  Earle  of  Thomond,  at  this  time,  1680,  in  the 
tenure  of  Major  Granniere  ;  opposite,  with  a  league  &  half  of  river 
between,  to  the  Castle  of  Carigofoile  in  the  county  of  Kerry,  hither 
28.  July  1601,  from  Limerick  marched  the  president  of  Mounster 
Carew  agst.  the  Rebells  of  Kerry  with  1050  Foot  of  Qu.  Eliz. 


«°  There  is  a  stone  in  a  field  belong- 
ing to  Mr.  Kieran  Molloy ;  a  short  dis- 
tance S.  W.  of  the  churchyard  of  Clpn- 
macnoise,on  which,  if  a  person  leaving 
the  country,  turns  on  his  heel,  with  the 
sun,  he  will,  it  is  believed,  be  sure  to 
come  back  to  his  native  place  alive.  This 
stone  is  called  "  Clogh-an-umpy,"  i.  e. 
cloch-an-t-iompodh,  "stone  of  the  turn- 
ing." This  is  a  curious  relic  of  our  an- 
cient sun-worship.  Tempo  in  Ferma- 
nagh is  called  in  Irish  an  t-iompodh 
deisiol,  i.  e.  "  turning  from  left  to 
right."  Joyce's  ' '  Irish  Names  of  Places." 
p.  28.-J.  G. 

21  The  forfeiture  of  the  property  of 
Teige  Caech  M'Mahon  in  1601  pro- 
moted further  inquiry  in  this  country. 
On  the  27th  of  October,  1604,  an  Inqui- 
sition took  place  of  a  remarkable  cha- 
racter, for  the  jury  found  that  Shinan 
M-Girrygine,  late  Bishop  of  Iniskatra 
(be  it  remembered  that  Scattery  was 
united  to  Killaloe  previous  to  the  Eng- 
lish conquest,  and  if  St.  Seanan  is  the 
bishop  meant,  he  died  in  544),  granted 
to  the  Church  for  pious  uses  sixteen 
quarters  of  land,  including  Kilrush, 
commonly  called  Termon  Shannon,  and 
that  they  had  been  granted  in  lease  by 
the  bishops  of  Killaloe,  but  were  de- 
clared forfeited  to  the  King  because 
they  were  granted  to  the  fraternity  of 
Canons  against  the  Statutes  of  Mort- 
main. 

1605,  March  9.  These  sixteen  quar- 
ters of  Termon  Shannon  were  granted 
to  John  King,  Clerk  of  the  Hanaper, 
Dublin;  and  in  March,  1609,  were  re- 
granted  to  Donat  Earl  of  Thomond. 
And  again  in  1620,  were,  with  other 
lands,  formed  into  the  Earl's  manor  of 


Kilrush  by  a  new  patent. 

In  1622,  John  Rider,  bishop  of  Killa- 
loe, made  a  claim  for  these  lands  to  the 
Royal  Commissioners ;  but  having  at 
the'same  time  claimed  almost  every  de- 
nomination in  the  three  baronies  of  Moy- 
arta,  Clonderalaw,  and  Ibrickane,  no 
notice  appears  to  have  been  taken  of  it. 
This  appears  a  confirmation  of  the  as- 
sertion that  amongst  the  native  chief- 
tains in  old  times  the  civil  and  ecclesias- 
tical power  were  united  in  the  same 
person,  those  baronies  having  in  ancient 
times  formed  the  kingdom  of  Corca 
Bhaiskin,  whose  kings  having  been  ex- 
pelled by  theM'Mahons,  it  became  united 
with  Thomond. 

By  the  Petty  Census,  Isaac  Granger, 
John  Arthur,  and  Peter  White,  appear 
as  "  Tituladoes"  in  the  town,  with  five 
English  and  eighty-four  Irish  inhabit- 
ants. 

The  Earl  of  Thomond,  after  the 
Restoration,  granted  a  lease  of  Kilrush, 
with  four  and  a-half  ploughlands,  to 
Isaack  Granger,  to  expire  in  1675;  and 
another  in  reversion  in  1672  to  Colonel 
John  Blount,  which  contained  a  covenant 
to  lay  out  the  town  of  Kilrush,  and  settle 
therein  ten  English  families,  or  in  want 
of  them,  ten  tradesmen,  and  to  build  no 
houses  but  with  brick  or  stone  and  lime, 
to  be  slated.  At  General  Hostings  to 
send  two  horsemen  armed  and  found 
for  a  month.  If  expelled  from  the  pre- 
mises by  war,  to  pay  no  rent  but  what 
he  makes  of  the  premises. 

In  1656,  Giles  Vandeleur  was  tenant 
to  the  Earl  of  Thomond  for  Ballynode, 
in  this  barony,  and  his  second  son,  the 
Rev.  John  Vandeleur,  was  appointed 
Rector  of  Kilrush  in  1688. 


souldiers  &  75  horse,  he  being  forc'd  to  take  his  way  through  ye 
county  of  Clare,  the  mountain  of  Sleuglogher,  by  reason  of  the 
rain,  being  impassable  for  carnages  ;  the  honour  of  this  despatch 
is  worthily  attributed  to  the  then  Earle  of  Thornond,  who  provided 
Boats. 

BARONY  of  BuRREN,22  in  the  county  of  Clare,  famous  for  Physi- 
cal Herbs  the  best  in  Ireland,  and  equall  to  the  best  of  England. 
Here  are  Eringo  Roots23  in  great  quantity.  Oysters  of  middle  syze, 
salt,  green  finn'd,  farr  exceeding  our  Colchester,  as  own'd  by  several 
Judges  of  both;  this  Barony  affordeth  not  a  piece  of  timber  suffi- 
cient to  hang  a  man,  water  in  any  one  place  to  drown  a  man,  or 
earth  enough  in  any  part  to  bury  him.  This  consists  of  one  entire 
rock  with  here  and  there  a  little  surface  of  Earth,  which  raiseth 
earlier  Beef  and  Mutton,  though  they  allow  no  hay,  than  any  land 
in  this  Kingdome,  &  much  sweeter  by  reason  of  the  sweet  herbs 
intermixed  and  distributed  every  where.  Earth  or  Mold  is  so 
precious  here,  that  it  is  reported  Process  has  bin  severall  times 
made  for  one  neighbours  removing  earth  in  baskets  from  one 
anothers  land.  Here  Horses  4  abrest  draw  the  Plough  by  the 
Tayles,24  which  was  the  custome  all  over  Ireland,  untill  a  Statute 


23  The  kingdom  of  Corcomroe  consisted 
of  the  present  baronies  of  Corcomroe 
and  Burren,  and  were  formed  into  an 
independent  diocese,  that  of  Kilfenora, 
at  the  synod  of  Rathbraissil,  in  1111. 
It  became  divided  under  two  chiefs  of 
the  O'Connors,  one  of  whom  assumed 
the  name  of  O'Loughlin;  and  their  fa- 
milies increased  to  such  an  extent,  that 
in  1641  there  were  fifty-three  proprie- 
tors of  land  in  the  barony  of  Burren  of 
the  name  of  O'Loughlin,  notwithstand- 
ing several  forfeitures  and  sales  which 
had  taken  place  during  the  preceding 
reign. 

The  O'Loughlins  had  joined  in  the 
resistance  to  the  Earl  of  Thomond's 
English  succession  by  primogeniture ; 
but  he  obtained  their  submission  by  force 
of  arms  in  1599,  notwithstanding  their 
warlike  nature  and  very  thick  skulls, 
which  was  a  type  of  the  ancient  race  of 
O'Loughlins. 

Some  of  this  "clan  were  admitted  to 
occupy  under  the  Cromwellian  Settle- 
ment ;  but  the  baronies  of  Burren  and 
Inchiquin  were  appointed  for  the  trans- 
planted Irish  from  Kerry,  who,  in  a  peti- 
tion to  the  Council,  Sep.  5, 1655,  complain 
that  they  had  been  assigned  that  part  of 
the  county  that  was  most  infertile  and 
waste,  and  they  were  also  removed  from 
the  sea  coast  by  the  mile-line,  which  was 


given  to  English  settlers  to  prevent  the 
Irish  from  intercourse  with  any  persons 
coming  by  ships.  At  the  Restoration, 
Donough  O'Loughlin,  of  Killonehan  pa- 
rish, received  a  grant  of  seventy  acres, 
the  only  one  of  that  numerous  family  that 
was  admitted  to  favour. 

Notwithstanding  its  infertile  charac- 
ter, large  quantities  of  cattle,  fed  on  the 
winterages  of  Burren,  without  the  aid  of 
artificial  food  or  hay,  are  disposed  of  at 
the  Spring  fair  at  Ballinasloe  in  such 
good  condition,  that  they  are  eagerly 
bought  up  by  those  who  possess  richer 
pastures. 

The  Pouldoody  oysters  still  maintain 
their  celebrity. 

23  i.  e.  Sea  Holly. 

21  1606.  Act  of  Council  was  passed 
restraining  the  barbarous  custom  of 
drawing  ploughs  and  carriages  by 

horses'  tails,  on  pain  of  forfeiture for 

the  first  year's  offence,  one  garron 
(horse) ;  the  second,  two ;  and  for  the 
third  the  whole  team. 

1613,  July  27.  Grant  made  11°  James 
1.  to  Sir  William  Uvedale  of  the  fines  of 
10s.,  to  be  forfeited  for  every  plough 
drawn  by  horses'  tails,  for  which  he 
was  to  pay  a  rent  to  the  Crown  of  £100 
Irish. 

In  1613  a  Commission  was  issued  to 
inquire  into  the  state  of  Ireland,  and 


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forbad  it  Yett  they  are  tollerated  this  custome  here  because  they 
cannot  mannage  their  land  otherwise,  their  Plough  Geers,  tackle, 
and  traces  being  (as  they  are  all  over  the  rest  of  the  Kmgdome)  oi 
Gadds  or  withs  of  twiggs  twisted,  which  here  would  break  to  pieces 
by  the  Plough  Share  so  often  jubbing  against  the  Rock,  which,  the 


BALLYKITT. 


Geers  being  fastened  by  wattles  or  wispes  to  the  Horses  Tayles, 
the  horses  being  sensible  stop  untill  the  Plowman  lifts  it  over. 
Here  people  live  to  an  extraordinary  age,  as  observed  by  a  Gentle- 
man of  this  countrey,  who  hath  an  estate  upon  the  place,  that  a  man 


among  other  things,  as  to  disorderly 
practices,  which  reported  "that,  not- 
withstanding the  order  of  1G06,  it  was 
not  put  in  execution  foralmost  five  years, 
until,  in  1611,  Captain  Paule  Goare,  de- 
manding seven  or  eight  score  pounds  of 
his  majesty  for  pay  of  certain  soldiers 
entertained  by  him  and  other  services, 
did  desire  the  benefit  of  this  penalty  in 
one  or  two  counties,  which  the  Lord 
Deputy  granted,  limiting  the  charge  to 
10s.  In  1612,  the  Lord  Deputy  ordered 
the  penalty  to  be  levied  in  all  Ulster, 
which,  amounting  to  £870,  was  em- 
ployed for  public  uses.  The  profits 
under  the  grant  to  Sir  William  Uvedale 
within  Ulster  has  produced  £800,  though 
they  were  informed  the  charge  on  the 
people  was  more. 

"  Although  divers  of  the  natives  pre- 
tend a  necessity  to  continue  the  said 
manner  of  ploughing,  as  more  fit  for 
stony  and  mountainous  ground,  yet  we 
are  of  opinion  it  is  not  fit  to  be  con- 


tinued." 

1620,  May  18th.  King's  letter  states 
"  that  he  had  hoped  the  barbarous  cus- 
tom would  have  been  reformed,  but 
that  he  had  heard  that  the  agents,  acting 
under  his  patent,  more  respecting  their 
own  profit  than  our  intention,  have,  by 
way  of  contract,  drawn  down  the  10s.,  to 
2s.  6d.,  and  2s.,  and  so,  by  lessening  the 
punishment,  opened  the  way  for  the  rude 
and  hateful  custom  to  spread  itself."  A 
Statute  10  &  11  Charles  I.,  cap.  15,  was 
afterwards  passed  that  none  should 
plough,  harrow,  or  draw  by  horses' 
tails. 

It  is  curious  that  Article  28,  in  the 
treaty  of  March  25,  1646,  between  the 
Supreme  Council  of  the  Confederates 
and  Lord  Ormond,  it  was  provided  that 
the  Acts  prohibiting  ploughing  by  horses' 
tails,  and  burning  oats  in  straw,  should 
be  repealed,  proving  what  a  hold  these 
customs  had  taken,  when  such  great 
issues  were  at  stake  at  that  moment. 


193 

and  his  wife  made  above  204  yeers.  The  Rock  is  a  sort  of  Lime- 
stone. And  their  Garrens,  horses  so  called,  are  seldome  or  never 
shoo'd.  It  is  not  so  seriously,  as  jestingly,  reported  that  a  Traveller 
passing  over  this  Barony  his  horses  leg  chanced  to  stick  in  an  hole 
between  two  rocks  and  to  leave  one  of  the  shoos,  which  he  alight- 
ing and  searching  for  it,  drew  up  out  of  the  same  place  above  30 
shoos ;  this  is  modestly  thought  the  least  number,  for  some  under- 
take to  say  30  dozen.  Here  is  but  one  narrow  road,  no  going  out 
of  it,  and  in  this  Barony  the  Particons  of  land  are  made  by  broad 
stones  like  slate  turn'd  up  edgewise. 

The  common  people  here  use  Brogues  made  of  raw  hides25  or 
untann'd  Leather. 

Ballykitt26  was  anciently  a  castle,  but  reduc'd  to  what  it  is  by 
Henry  Hickman,  Esqr.  Here  is  yeerly  kept  a  fair  for  black  Cat- 
tle on  the  Feast  day  of  S4.  John  Baptist,  called  Ballykitt  fair. 

This  is  part  of  the  Estate  of  the  Right  Honble.  Henry  Earle  of 
Thomond  within  a  mile  of  Kilrush  Town. 

Note,  that  Irish  Cattle  at  4  yeers  old  here  are  held  marketable 
if  fatt,  wherefore  not  so  fitt  for  long  voyages  as  the  English  8  yeer 
old  stall-fed  Beefs.27 

A  Dayes  sayle  from  hence  are  seen  the 

ISLES  of  ARRAN,  the  outer  part  of  ye  West  of  this  Kingdome, 
where  'tis  sayd  the  Inhabitants  complaine  of  living  too  long,  and 
are  faine  to  come  out  thence  to  dye. 

LISCAGHAN  Castle,  in  Kerry,  was  taken  in  storme  and  scale 
Anno  1600  by  one  Maurice  Stack  serv*  to  ye  then  President  Carew 
of  Mounster,  with  but  50  men  ;  this  castle  is  situate  in  the  very 
heart  and  middst  of  Kerry  ;  after  this  16.  July  1600,  the  rebells 
beseiged  this  castle,  Stack  in  it,  and  placed  an  Irish  Engine  against 
it,  called  a  sow,  to  its  walls,  to  sapp  the  same  as  they  terme  it.  But 
Stack  &  his  men  made  a  sally,  and  so  well  behaved  themselves  that 
they  tore  the  sow  in  pieces  and  made  her  cast  her  piggs,  slaying 
27  of  them  on  the  place.  After  Stack,  Mr.  Walter  Talbot  had  the 
comand  of  Liscaghan  as  constable  which  ye  Rebell  Florence28 
thought  to  have  brib'd,  but  in  vain. 

GLANCOYN  Castle  in  Connilogh,  whose  ruines  are  seen  at  this 
day,  was  surpriz'd  Octobr  1st  1600  by  Sr  Francis  Berkley;  after 

25  From  a  rare  book  entitled  "  Beware  a  lease  of  Ballyket   from   Lord  Clare, 
the  Cat;"  it  appears  that  these  brogues  Nov.  13,  1666,  for  three  lives.  It  did  not 
were  fitted  to  the  foot  by  a  piece  of  the  belong  to  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  as  stated 
hide  being  laced  on  when  fresh  from  the  by  Dineley. 

beast. — J.  G.  27  It  is  curious  to  find  early  maturity, 

26  This  was  one  of  the  manors  of  Vis  now  held  to  be  a  result  of  high  English 
count  Clare,  in  the  barony  of  Moyarta;  breeding,  here  set  forth  as  a  peculiarity 
and  Colonel  Daniel  O'Brien,  afterwards  of  the   "  Irish   cattle"  of  Clare,  one  of 
third  Viscount,  resided  here  during  his  the  aboriginal  breeds  of  Ireland.— J.  G. 
father's  life.    Henry  Hickman  obtained  S8  i.  e.  Florence  Mac  Carthy. 


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which,  in  Kerry,  Castlemang  in  ye  hands  of  Thomas  Oge,  and  Lis- 
toel  castle  defended  by  Fitz  Maurice,  were  both  regain'd,  wherein, 
as  in  other  exployts  agl  the  Irish  Rebells,  Captain  Flower  of  Lis- 
more  was  very  eminent. 

DINGLK  CASTLE,  belonging  to  a  famous  haven  &  J  own  of  that 
name  in  the  County  of  Kerry,  &  then  belonging  to  Wm  Fitz  Gerald 
the  Knight  of  Kerry,  in  Novembr  1600  was  by  him  surrendered  to 
Sr  Charles  VVilmot,  and  he  received  into  favour  by  the  President 
of  Mounster,  for  Qu.  Elizabeth,  Sr  George  Carew.  Dingle  Town 
belongs  now,  1681,  to  Sr  Wra  Brewster  ;  it  goes  by  the  name  of 
Dingle  Icouch. 

Castle  ny  Parke,  invested  by  the  Spanyards  when  they  took 
Kinsale,  was  rendered  by  them  to  Queen  Elizabth  20  Novr  1601 
upon  promise  of  their  Lives  onely. 

Here  very  observable  was  a  brave  act  of  a  private  souldier,  for 
whilst  the  Lord  Deputy  Mountjoy  and  the  serjeant  major  were 
viewing  the  grounds,  a  musqueteer  belonging  to  Sr  Francis  Berk- 
leys Company,  in  the  face  of  the  guards,  attempting  to  steal  (as  he 
had  done  divers  times  before)  a  Spanish  Sentinel,  who  was  seconded 
with  4  that  he  saw  not,  fought  them  all  five,  whereof  one  of  them 
was  a  sergeant  major,  whom  he  had  almost  taken  prisoner,  &  when 
he  had  found  he  could  do  noe  good  upon  them  all,  he  came  off 
without  other  hurt  than  ye  cutting  of  his  hand  a  little  with  the 
breaking  of  a  thrust,  Novr  23.  1601. 

This  Castle  nyPark  was  erected  by  the  Queen,  Anno  1601,  by 
her  Ingineer  Paul  Ives,  for  the  defence  of  Kinsale  Harbour ;  who 
also  contrived  Halabolin  Fort. 

[Here  is  given  a  view  of  Castle  ny  Park,  or  Park  Castle,  from 
the  "  Pacata  Hibernia."] 

HALBOLIN,  the  remains  whereof  are  yett  to  be  seen,  was  scituate 
in  an  Island  of  the  same  name  in  the  river  of  Cork  six  miles  and  a 
half  from  that  capital  city ;  this  fort  was  erected  by  Paul  Ives,  an 
ingineer,  to  comand  the  river  and  shipping  directed  so  to  do  by  Sr. 
George  Carew,  Lord  President  of  Munster,  January  15.  1601,  for 
the  Queene ;  at  the  same  time  was  also  erected  Castle  ny  Parke  to 
defend  the  Haven  of  Kinsale. 

[Here  is  given  a  view  of  Halbolin  Fort,  from  the  "  Pacata  Hi- 
bernia."] 

Lough-Gurr,  a  fair  Castle  in  the  Tenure  of  John  Baily,  Esqr. 
It  belonged  to  the  Countesse  Dowager  of  Bathe,  who  built  the 
sayd  new  Church  for  the  use  of  the  protestants,  and  bestow'd  a 
Rich  Pulpitt  Cloth,  Silver  Chalice,  Plate,  Bible,  &  service  book. 
It  now  belongs  to  Sr  Henry  Vane  or  Fane,  part  of  his  Estate. 


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The  sayd  Countesse  was  Dowager  of  Henry  Bourchier  Earle 
of  Bathe. 

This  Castle  during  the  Time  of  the  Irish  .Rebellion  was  alwayes 
a  Garrison  for  one  side  or  other;  beside,  being  in  an  Island  of  above 


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a  mile  in  circumference  encompass'd  with  a  large  and  deep  Lough 
or  Poole,  it  was  a  receptacle  not  onely  for  man  but  beast  to  de- 
fend from  the  enemy. 

Lough  Gurr  is  seven  miles  from  Limerick. 


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The  Lough  or  large  mote  which  encompasseth  this  Island  and 
Castle  aboundeth  in  Fishes,  Pike,  Eeles,  but  Roches  in  vast  quan- 
tity. Mr.  Henry  Bayly,  son  to  the  sd  Jn°  Bayly,  told  me  of  a 
prodigious  Pike  there  lately  taken  of  4  foot  &  half  in  length,  with 
one  in  its  Belly  of  above  two  foot  long. 

In  the  Castle  are  seen  these  Armes : — 

[Here  is  drawn  a  shield  with  the  arms  blazoned  in  the  text.] 

Thus  blazon'd,  he  beareth  Argent  a  Cross  engrailed  Gules,  be- 
tween four  Water  bowgetts  sable.  This  was  the  coat  Armor  of 
John  Bourchier  Lord  Fitz-warin  of  Tawstock  in  Devonshire  (son 
of  Foulke  Bourchier  Lord  Fitz  Warin,  and  of  his  wife  Elizabeth, 
second  sister  and  Coheire  of  John  Lord  Dinham,  Lord  Hi^h  Trer 
of  England  under  Henry  VII.,  which  Foulk  was  son  of  Richard 
Bourchier,  Lord  Fitz  Warin,  in  right  of  his  wife  Thomasin,  daugh- 
ter and  heire  of  Sr  Richard  Hankford  and  of  his  wife  Elizabeth, 
daughter  and  heire  of  Foulke  Fitz  Warin,  last  Lord  Fitz  warm,  of 
that  Family,  which  William  Bourchier  was  younger  son  of  William 
Bourchier  Earle  of  Ewe  in  Normandy,  and  younger  brother  to 
Henry  Bourchier  first  Earle  of  Essex)  was  the  9.  of  June  1536 
created  Earle  of  Bath,  by  Henry  8,  in  the  28.  yeer  of  his  reign;  he 
died  the  27.  Ap.  1539,  and  31  of  Henry  VIII.,  who  marryed,  &c. 
From  hence  is  descended  that  truly  noble  Knt.  Sr  Henry  Bouchier, 
or  of  this  Family,  &  a  carefull  and  diligent  searcher  out  of  Anti- 
quities of  the  Kingdome  of  England  as  well  as  of  this,  whose  armes 
I  think  these  are,  for  that  ye  Earles  of  Bath  have  this  addition  of 
charge,  viz.  a  label  of  3  points  azure  charged  with  9  Flower  de 
luces  Or. 

BALLINGARDE  CASTLE. 


BALLiNKGARDE.-Kemarkeable  here  is,  that  one  M".  Bourke, 
to  be  contracted  to  a  person  for  whom  she  had  no  fancy,  the  night 


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before  the  intended  solemnity  she  leap'd  out  of  the  window  of  this 
castle,  marked  (a),  of  about  16  yards  high  without  hurt  &  ran  away. 
And  afterwards  marryed  to  the  same  man  she  so  avoyded,  and 
lived  happily  with  him. 

Ballinegarde  Castle  is  4  miles  distant  from  the  City  of  Limerick, 
in  the  hands  of  John  Croker,  Esqr.,  one  of  his  Matiei  Justices  of  the 
Peace  for  the  County  of  Limerick,  one  of  the  greatest  Corne  Mer- 
chants in  the  sayd  County. 

This  Castle  and  Estate  is  the  jointure  of  the  widdow  to  Coll1 
Randolph  Clayton. 

A  mile  and  half  from  hence  are  seen  the  Ruines  of 

Schuille  Castle,  sd  to  be  built  by  King  John,  the  lands  whereof 
belong  to  Sr  George  Ingoldsby.  Herein  lived  in  the  yeer  1673,  or 
near  it,  in  a  certain  Cabbin,  being  serjeant,  viz.,  a  bayliffe,  to  the 
sayd  Mr.  Croker,  one  David  Brown,  who  voyded  a  flattish  Worme 
of  above  twenty  and  four  foot  long. 

Six  miles  from  Limerick,  and  seven  miles  from  Ballinegard  is 
the  Town  of 

AD  ARE. — In  which  were  anciently  seen  Abbeys  whose  Ruines 
are  worth  visiting ;  here  was  a  mannour  house  belonging  to  the 
Earles  of  Kildare  totally  ruined  by  Pierce  Lacy  Anno.  1600.  The 
Town  of  Ardare  was  burnt  by  Maurice  Stack  ;  halfe  a  mile  from 
hence  are  the  ruines  of  Liscaghan  Castle. 

RATHMORE  castle  was  in  the  hands  of  rebells  in  Queen  Eliza- 
beths time  Anno.  1600:  it  is  3  miles  out  of  Limerick  road,  it  was 
surrendered  to  the  Queen  15.  July  &  ye  ward  delivered  to  Carew 
presid*  of  Mounster ;  it  is  3  miles  out  of  way  between  Limerick  & 
Kilmallock. 

From  Limerick  by  Abby  Owhny  to  Carigkenlish  is  6  miles. 


On  ye  left  hand  going  to  the  Altar  is  seen  this  upon  Sr  George 
Ingoldesby's  wive's  mother. 

2D 


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[Here  is  given  a  drawing  of  a  Table  monument  with  the  fol- 
lowing words  in  Roman  Capitals.] 

RI8  NI.   ANNABEL   GOULD  TH 

DIED   XXVII   MAY.    MDCLXXII. 

On  the  right  hand,  going  up  to  the  Altar  place  of  ye  Chancel 
of  Carigkenlish  is  seen  this  monument  against  the  wall. 
In  Roman  Capitals. 

HTJNC   TUMULUM   THEOBALDUS   BOURK    8IBI 

ET    UXORI    SUI    SLANIE    BRIEN    FIERI    FECIT 

BURKHIARUM    80BOLES    CAROLING 

SANGINE    TINCTE    ATQUE    BRIANOR 

UM   NOBILITATA   TRIBU 

HIC    THEOBALDE    JACKS   TECUM. 

[Here  is  drawn  a  Jacobean  mural  monument  with  three  niches, 
above  an  altar  tomb.  Over  the  right-hand  niche  are  the  words 
SANCTA  MARIA,  in  the  centre  a  Crucifixion,  with  the  letters  INRI, 
over  the  left-hand  niche  is  ST.  JOHANNES  ;  on  it  Dineley  has  placed 
a  portion  of  the  above  inscription,  writing  it  at  full  in  margin.] 

On  an  altar  Tomb,  in  Roman  Capitals. 

HERE    LIETH   THE    BODY    OF   APHRA   MANSEL    MY 

DEAR   MOTHER   DAUGHTER    OF   S*   WILLM   CRAYFOJRD    K* 

THERE   ALSO   LIETH   MY   DEAR   WIFE   MARY   MANSEL 

DAUGHTER   OF   GEORGE   BOOTH   OF   CHESHIRE   ESQUIRE 

AND    OF   MY   SISTER   APHRA    PEACOCK   AND    OF   HER   DAUGHTER 

ANNE   PEACOCK   ERECTED   BY   ME    JOHN    MANSELL   ESQUIRE 

AND    ENTENDED    FOR    MYSELF    AND    THE    REST    OF 

MY    FAMILY    THIS    XII    OCTOBER.    MDCLXII. 

From  Carickenlish  to  Craigowhny,  Cragg  Owhny,  in  the  County 
Palatine  of  Tiperary  is  6  miles. 

Cragg  Owhny  anglice  Rock  Owhny  (the  Principal  seat  belong- 
ing anciently  to  the  Riians  whose  monuments  and  Inscripcon  I 
have  touched  off  in  Abby  Owhny)  now  in  the  hands  of  Richard 
Lee,  Esq. 

From  Cragg  Ownhy  to  Knockannaneen  a  small  mile.  The 
Etimology  of  Knockannaneen  is,  the  Hill  of  the  white  bird  ;  this 
Estate  and  Castle  belongs  to  [blank']  Sheldon,  Eeqr. 

From  Knockannaneene  to  Obrien's  Bridge29  Town  is  a  mile 
and  half 

'»  The  O'Briens,  who,  after  the  banish-  wars  with  the  Earls  of  Desmond,  with 

mcnt  of  the  English  out   of  Clare    in  respect  to  the  territories,  which  lay  in 

1318,    had    succeeded    as    Princes    of  the  south  side  of  the  Shannon,   and  in 

Thomond,   were  involved    in   frequent  1466,  Teige  O'Brien  not  only  succeeded 


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Two  miles  from  hence  is  the  Bishoprick  and  ancient  city  of 
Killaloo.30  This  Bridge  parteth  ye  County  of  Tipperary  and  Clare. 


KNOCKANNANKEN. 

in   obtaining   the   territory  of  Clan wil-       Co.    Limerick,  and  a  subsidy  of  sixty 
liam,  but  also  a  chief  rent    out  of  the       marks  a  year  for  the  city  of  Limerick. 


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Within  a  mile  and  three  quarters  of  O'brien's  Bridge  is  seen 
the  Ruines  of  a  very  ancient  Building  called  CASTLE  CONNELL 
built  by  King  John. 


KNOCKANNANEEN. 

A  fair  View  of  it  is  seen  on  yr  left  hand  returning  for  Limerick 
from  O'Brien's  Town,  from  whence  to 


T.  The  House  of  the  Earle  of  inchiquin.al 

O'BRIEN'S  BRIDGE. 

PARTEENE  is  5  miles :  this  is  a  small  Town  adjoining  to  the  fa- 
mous Salmon  Wire  belonging  to  the  City  of  Limerick. 

from  the  bishops  of  Killaloe  and  Kilfe- 
nora,  built  a  bridge  across  the  river 
Shannon,  at  Portcrusha,  in  1507.  The 
Earl  of  Kildare,  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland, 
partly  destroyed  this  bridge  in  1510. 
In  1534  Connor  O'Brien,  Prince  of  Tho- 
mond, having  given  his  adhesion  to  Lord 
Thomas  Fitzgerald,  the  "Silken  Earl," 


After  the  defeat  of  M'William  of 
Clanrickard,  and  Prince  Turlogh  Donn 
O'Brien,  who  had  gone  to  his  aid,  at 
the  battle  of  Knocktow,  in  1504,  the 
city  of  Limerick  could  no  longer  be 
depended  upon  as  a  passage  from  one 
part  of  Thomond  to  the  other :  so 
O'Brien,  having  obtained  assistance 


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Upon  Parteen  bridge  is  read  this  Inscripcon  beginning  a  fair 
Causeway  over  a  bogg  leading  to  Limerick 

HTTNC    PONTEM    AC    VIAM    STEATAM    FIERI   FECIT 

PETRUS    CREAGH 

FILIVS    ANDREW 

MAJOR   CIVITATIS    LIMERICENSIS.       STJMPTIETJS 

EJTJSDEM    CIVITATIS 
ANNO    DOMINI   MDCXXXV. 

On  the  right  hand  of  this  Bridge  is  a  Great  Decoy  for  Ducks, 
belonging  to  James  Fitz  Gerald  of  the  middle  Temple,  Esqr. 

In  the  midway  of  this  Causeway  are  also  other  Inscripcons  of 
Majors  of  Limerick  as  One  [blank]  Arthur,  Wilson,  \_blank~] 
Samuel  Foxon,  Esqrs. 


Lord  Leonard  Grey's  attention  was  di- 
rected to  this  bridge,  "by  which,  in  a 
manner,  all  the  English  thereto  adjoin- 
ing had  been  subdued,  especially  the 
County  of  Limerick,  and  that  unless 
the  bridge  be  in  haste  laid  prostrate, 
the  O'Briens  may  be  expected  to  en- 
croach still  further  upon  the  territory 
of  the  English."  It  was  not  until  1536 
that  Lord  Leonard  Grey  succeeded  in 
destroying  the  bridge,  having  "  brought 
a  Portugal  piece,  and  certain  harque- 
busses  and  hand  guns,  with  a  great 
piece  of  iron,  that  shot  balls,  as  great 
in  manner  as  a  man's  head,  with  which 
the  garrison  were  driven  out  of  their 
defences,  and  the  bridge,  which  was 
fifteen  score  paces  long,  was  broken 
down  with  bills,  swords,  and  daggers, 
with  great  labour  for  lack  of  pickaxes 
and  crows." 

After  the  death  of  Connor  O'Brien, 
his  brother  Murrough,  who  succeeded 
as  Prince,  no  longer  able  to  resist  the 
increased  power  of  the  English,  not  only 
surrendered  his  principality,  but  agreed 
to  relinquish  all  claim  as  chieftain  be- 
yond the  Shannon. 

30  Under  the  ancient  Irish  rule,  the  ec- 
clesiastical divisions  were  conterminous 
with  the  territories  of  the  principal 
chieftains,  and  Tuam  Greine,  or  Tom- 
graney,  appears  to  have  been  chief 
church  of  the  Dalcassian  tribe  of  Ui 
Bloid,  who  were  settled  on  the  north  side 
of  the  Shannon.  When  Brian  Borumha 
selected  Kincora,  in  the  present  town  of 
Killaloe,  as  his  chief  residence,  in  prefe- 
rence to  Cashel,  which  his  family  were 


only  entitled  to  occupy  in  alternate  suc- 
cession with  the  Eugenian  race,  the 
church  of  Killaloe  sprung  into  impor- 
tance. On  the  south  side  of  the  Shannon 
lay  another  territory  of  the  Ive  Bloid, 
whose  chief  church  was  Tir  de  Glas,  or 
Terry  Glass. 

When  the  Papal  Legate,  Gillebert, 
bishop  of  Limerick,  at  the  Synod  of 
Rathbrassil,  in  1111,  consolidated  the 
minor  bishoprics  into  regular  dioceses, 
Killaloe  was  selected  for  the  centre  of  the 
diocese;  and  in  1195  the  diocese  ofRos- 
crea  was  added ;  and  about  the  same 
time  Inis-cattery,  or  Scattery,  which  in- 
cluded the  baronies  of  Moyarta,  Clonde- 
ralaw,  and  Ibrickan,  which  had  been 
the  kingdom  of  Corca  Bhaiscin,  was 
likewise  united  with  Killaloe. 

From  the  time  of  Brian  Borumha, 
there  is  a  tolerably  regular  account  of 
the  successors  to  the  See  of  Killaloe, 
some  of  whom  are  styled  bishops  of 
Thomond. 

The  death  of  the  last  bishop  of  Tir 
de  Glas  is  recorded  in  1 152 ;  and  the  last 
bishop  of  Inis-cattery  recorded  died  in 
1188.  Charles  O'Heney,  bishop  of  Kil- 
laloe, who  died  in  1 193,  being  also  bishop 
of  Inis-cattery. 

In  1217,  King  John  appointed  Robert 
Travers,an  Englishman,  to  the  See,  and 
Geoffry  de  Mariscis,  the  Lord  Justice, 
erected  a  castle  at  Killaloe  for  his  pro- 
tection ;  but  he  was  deprived  by  the 
Papal  Legate  in  1221 ;  and  from  that 
time  until  1612  the  See  was  occupied  by 
bishops  of  Irish  blood,  notwithstanding 
all  the  laws  which  had  been  passed 


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CARRIGFOYLK  CASTLE,  five  miles  distant  from  the  Glinnstood 
out  against  Queen  Elizabeth  Anno  1600,  as  it  also  did  before, 
Anno  1580,  and  was  won  by  Sr  William  Pelham,  then  Lord  Justice 
of  this  Kingdom,  under  whom  at  that  time  there  serv'd,  as  a  Captn 
of  Foot,  George  Carew,  afterwards  Sr  George  Carew  Lord  Presi- 
dent of  Mounster,  then  George  Lord  Carew  Earle  of  Totness, 
General  of  the  Ordinance,  &  of  her  Matie8  most  honble  Privy 
Counsell. 

This  Castle  was  surrendered  by  O'Conner  Kerry,  and  by  the 
afore  menconed  president  Anno  1600  put  into  the  hand  of  Sr. 
Charles  Wilmot.  At  which  time  the  Earle  of  Thomond,  out  of  his 
affeccon  for  her  Maties  service  gave  unto  John  O'Conner  during  the 
warrs  another  Castle  and  thirteen  Ploughlands,  for  himself  and 
Tenants  to  live  upon  in  the  County  of  Clare,  nevertheles  upon  ye 
landing  of  the  Spanyards,  this  perfidious  traytor  relapsed. 

When  the  Lord  President  had  sate  down  before  the  Castle  and 
had  invested  it,  viz.  2.  Aug.  1600,  Patrick  Lord  Fitz  Maurice,  a 
stubborn  Rebell  then  living,  when  he  saw  his  chief  seat,  the  Castle 
of  LIXNAW  and  that  of  RATHOWINE  belonging  to  the  Bpp  of  Kerry 
and  TRALEE  taken  by  surprize  by  Sr  Charles  Wilmot,  he  himself 
broke  and  defaced  his  castle  of 

BEAU-LIEU  seated  upon  the  river  Shannon  and  two  miles  distant 
from  the  following  Castle  of  Carrigfoyle. 

The  Condicon  of  Carrigfoyle  Castle  Anno.  1580,  when  it  was 
taken  by  Sr.  Wra.  Pelham,  Knt.  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  on  Palm 
Sunday,  and  the  manner  how  ye  cannon  were  planted  for  its  battery 
taken  from  a  draught. 

[Here  is  given  a  view  of  Carrigfoyle  Castle  from  the  "  Pacata 
Hibernia."] 

against  ecclesiastics  of  the  Irish  nation.  Perrott  in  1583,  a  compromise  was  ef- 

3'  From  the  circumstance  of  the  Earls  fected ;  for  while  the  Earls  of  Thomond 

of  Inchiquin  having  been  created  Mar-  obtained  5s.  a  quarter  in  lieu  of  chief- 

quesses  of  Thomond,  after  the  extinc-  tain's  right  from  eight  baronies,  Lord 

tion  of  the  Thomond  branch,  very  few  Inchiquin  was  given  5s.  a  quarter  for 

understand  the  distinction  of  the  two  every  quarter  in  the  barony  of  Inchiquin, 

lines.     Murrough  O'Brien,  who  surren-  the  castle  of  Inchiquin  being  then  the 

dered  to  Henry  VIII.,  was  created  Earl  residence  of  the  lords, 
of  Thomond  only  for  life,  the  hereditary  Murrough,  the  first  lord,  possessed  the 

title  being  that  of  Inchiquin.     His  ne-  castle  and  manor  of  O'Brien's  Bridge, 

phew  Donough,  son  of  his  elder  brother,  with  nine  quarters  of  land, 
was  at  the  same  time  created  Baron  of          The  sixth  baron,  created  Earl  of  Inch- 

Ibrackane,  with  remainder  to  the  Earl-  iquin,  obtained  Rostellan,  in  the  county 

dom  of  Thomond  ;  and  thus  the  heirs  of  of  Cork,  which  became  the  chief  seat  of 

Murrough   were   Inchiquins,   while   the  that  family.      He  died   in  1673.      The 

heirs  of  Donough  were  Thomonds;  and  second  Earl  went   as  Governor  to  Ja- 

between  these  two  families  there  was  a  maica,  where  he  died  in  1691  ;  and  the 

feud  of  long  duration,  arising  originally  third  Earl  resided  at  Rostellan.     This 

as  an  offshoot  of  the  wars  between  the  third  Earl  leased  away  all  the  manor 

Butlers  and  Fitzgeralds,  Donough  hav-  of  O'Brien's  Bridge  to  different  persons, 

ing  married  a  Butler,  and  Murrough  a  and  the  reserved  rents  were  afterwards 

Fitzgerald.  sold. 
At  the   composition   with   Sir   John 


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CASTLE  OF  LIMERICK. 

[Here  is  given  a  view  of  the  Castle  of  Limerick,  from  the 
"  Pacata  Hibernia."] 

The  Irish  C'ch  Historians  speak  Richard  de  Clare,  Marshall, 
called  Comes  Strangulensis,  the  first  and  chief  invader  and  conqueror 
of  this  Kingdome  to  be  buried  here,  in  the  Quire  of  the  ancient 
Preaching  Friers. 

It  is  not  impossible  that  being  so  remarkeable  a  man  as  he  was, 
here  may  have  been  set  up  some  Honorary  Remembrance,  Reli- 
gionis  causa,  as  the  custome  was  of  such  whose  bodies  were  missing, 
as  lost  by  shipwrack,  slayn,  cut,  mangled,  and  hewn  in  pieces  in 
battaile,  or  of  such  who  died  in  forraigne  parts  in  battaile  also,  or 
otherwise  whose  Interment  was  unknown.  In  ancient  times  it  being 
the  opinion  that  the  Spirit  of  the  dead  could  by  no  means  rest 
untill  the  body  had  decent  buriall,  so  that  he  may  have  had  this 
sort  of  Cenotaph,  where  is  also  sd  to  be  buried  his  brother  William. 

[Extracts  from  Virgil  and  Homer  omitted  here.] 

postscript. 

SINCE  the  Introduction  to  Dineley's  Tour  in  Ireland  was  written 
in  1856,  Mr.  John  Gough  Nichols  has  edited  for  the  Camden  So- 
ciety our  author's  "  History  from  Marble,  being  ancient  and  mo- 
dern Funeral  Monuments  in  England  and  Wales,  by  T.  D.,  Gent." 
In  the  admirable  introduction  which  he  has  prefixed  to  that  work, 
Mr.  Nichols  has,  I  think,  conclusiuely  shown  that  I  was  in  error 
in  supposing  that  Thomas  Diueley  [or  Dingley,  as  he  appears 
generally  to  have  written  his  name]  was  identical  with  Thomas 
Dineley,  of  Whithall  Chapel,  in  the  parish  of  Bromsgrove,  or  was 
in  any  way  connected  with  the  Worcestershire  family,  as  Nash,  in 
his  history  of  that  county,  considered  to  be  the  fact.  It  is  clear 
that  he  was  of  the  Dingleys  of  Southampton,  who  bore,  however, 
the  same  armes  (argent,  a  fess  sable,  and  in  chief  a  mullet  between 
two  pellets  of  the  last),  as  the  Dineleys,  or  Dingleys  of  Charlton,  in 
Worcestershire,  and  were  probably  originally  of  the  same  stock. 

It  has  now  been  ascertained  from  the  Admission  Book  of  Gray's 
Inn,  to  which  we  have  the  authority  of  our  industrious  author 
himself,  that  he  belonged  [see  the  dedicatory  inscription  appended 
to  the  view  of  Newport  House,  at  p.  207  of  the  History  from 
Marble],  that  he  was  admitted  on  the  6th  of  August,  1670,  being 
the  son  and  heir  of  Thomas  Dingley,  of  Southampton,  in  the  county 
of  Southampton,  Esq.  His  grandmother  was  Dorothy,  daughter, 
and  one  of  the  coheirs  of  John  Hopton,  of  Hopton-in-le-Hole, 
in  Shropshire,  Esq.,  whose  sister,  as  appears  by  the  Hampshire 


^04 

Visitations  made  in  1622,  and  1624,  was  the  wife  of  Sir  Richard 
Hopton  of  Cherbery,  in  the  same  county,  Knt.,  whom  our  author 
mentions  in  his  account  of  Sir  Thomas  Coningsby's  Hospital  at 
Hereford,  as  "  his  honoured  great  uncle." 

Of  the  Irish  journey,  Mr.  Nichols  has  remarked;  "^ though 
Dingley  nowhere  distinctly  intimates  the  circumstances  which  con- 
ducted him  to  Ireland,  yet  it  is  evident  that  his  greatest^  friends  in 
that  country  were  among  the  dependants  of  the  Earl  of  Thomond. 
In  his  subsequent  book  upon  Wales,  he  takes  occasion,  on  the 
mere  incidental  mention  of  Brien,  one  of  the  old  kings  of  Ireland, 
to  remark,  that  "  Of  the  name  of  Brien  or  O'Brien,  and  family, 
are  descended  the  most  noble  Irish  Earls  of  Thomond,"  and  then 
introduces  a  view  of  Bunratty  Castle  (a  drawing,  in  fact,  removed 
from  p.  171,  of  his  Irish  Journal),  and  a  description  of  the  monu- 
ment of  Donagh,  Earl  of  Thomond,  in  Saint  Mary's  Church,  at 
Limerick,  which,  having  been  defaced  in  the  rebellion,  was  restored 
in  the  year  1678,  by  his  grandson,  Earl  Henry.  Such  a  digression 
is,  at  first  view,  most  extraordinary,  but  its  motives  will  be  under- 
stood when  considered  with  regard  to  the  connexion  that  existed 
between  the  Thomond  family  and  that  of  his  new  patron,  the  Duke 
of  Beaufort,  for  whose  acceptance  the  Welsh  volume  was  intended. 
This  volume  was  printed  by  the  liberality  of  the  present  Duke 
of  Beaufort,  in  the  year  1864,  under  the  editorial  care  of  Charles 
Baker,  Esq.,  F.  S.  A.,  the  author's  drawings  being  beautifully  en- 
graved on  wood.  The  number  of  copies  was  strictly  limited  to  one 
hundred. 

Mr.  Nichols  has  also  been  successful  in  discovering  in  Doctors' 
Commons  the  record  of  administration  to  the  property  of  Thomas 
Dingley,  dated  the  14th  of  May,  1695,  by  which  I  am  enabled  to 
correct  an  error  into  which  I  was  led  by  a  statement  of  the  His- 
torian Nash  ;  it  appears  that  he  died  when  engaged  in  foreign 
travels,  at  Louvaine  in  Flanders,  and  that  he  had  lived  a  bachelor, 
and  was  the  last  of  his  family,  his  heir  being  a  niece,  the  daughter 
of  his  sister  Eliza,  the  wife  of  William  Melling. 

Ev.  PH.  SHIRLEY. 
Lower  Eatington  Park, 
May  20,  1869- 


PROCEEDINGS  AND  PAPERS, 


QUARTERLY  GENERAL  MEETING,  held  at  the  Society's  Apartments, 
William-street,  Kilkenny,  on  Wednesday,  October  9th,  1867- 

The  Rev.  C.  A.  VIGNOLES,  in  the  Chair. 
The  following  new  members  were  elected: — 

Major-General  John  St.  George,  C.  B.,  R.  A.,  Director-General 
of  Ordnance,  17,  Rutland-gate,  London,  S.W. ;  proposed  by  Major 
St.  George. 

Rev.  J.  Gray  Porter,  Sackville-street  Club,  Dublin :  proposed 
by  the  Rev.  J.  Graves. 

James  Dolan,  Esq.,  Gaulstown,  Dunleer :  proposed  by  Sir  J. 
Robinson,  Bart. 

George  Oliver  Webb,  Esq.,  J.P.,  Webbsborough,  Castleco- 
mer:  proposed  by  Mr.  Prim. 

C.  O'Keeffe  Lanigan,  Esq.,  Barrister-at-law:  proposed  by 
W.  L.  Hackett,  Esq. 

Robert  J.  Robertson,  Esq.,  Barrister-at-law,  Kildare-street, 
Dublin  :  proposed  by  C.  H.  Foot,  Esq. 

The  following  presentations  were  received,  and  thanks  voted 
to  the  donors : 

By  the  Rev.  R.  Deverell,  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Frederick  Grome, 
6,  Charleville-road,  Rathmines  :  two  encaustic  flooring  tiles,  from 
the  Abbey  of  Great  Connell,  Co.  Kildare. 

By  Mr.  J.  Mervyn  Byrne,  Webbsborough :  an  ancient  iron 
key,  of  uncommon  form,  and  part  of  a  metal  buckle  of  curious 
workmanship,  the  former  turned  up  within  a  few  yards  of  the  site 
of  the  old  Castle  of  Ballinrinka — the  ancient  name  of  Webbs- 
borough  ;  and  the  latter  found  in  a  field  in  the  townland  of  Crossy- 
Brennan  (orBrennan's  Cross),  on  the  spot  where,  according  to  local 
tradition,  the  sept  of  the  Brennans,  in  olden  times,  fought  a  bloody 
battle,  but  whether  against  the  Sassenach  or  among  themselves  did 

2  E 


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not  seem  to  be  remembered.     Also  a  silver  sixpence  of  Charles  II, 
accidentally  received  by  him  in  change. 

By  Barry  Hyde,  Esq.,  Head  Manager  of  the  National  Bank, 
Liverpool :  some  specimens  of  modern  "  ring  money,  to  illustrate, 
by  comparison,  some  of  the  ancient  objects  of  that  class  m  the 
Society's  Museum.  Those  now  presented,  Mr.  Hyde  observed,  were 
worn  as  ornaments,  as  well  as  used  to  represent  money,  at  Bonny,  West 
coast  of  Africa ;  whilst  at  Lagos  cowries  were  used  for  the  same  pur- 
pose The  composition  was  a  mixture  of  brass  and  copper,  and  they 
were  much  of  one  size  and  weight,  and  differed  only  slightly  in  shape. 

By  Thomas  R.  Lane,  Esq.,  St.  Finbar's,  Cork :  several  very 
interesting  photographic  views,  taken  by  himself  in  Kilkenny, 
during  the  last  summer.  They  included  views  of  St.  Canice's 
Cathedral,  the  Castle,  St.  John's  Bridge,  the  Tholsel,  Shee's  old 
house,  High-street,  a  group  of  the  sculptured  stones  of  Romanesque 
character,°belonging  to  the  more  ancient  church  of  St.  Canice  of 
Kilkenny,  destroyed  in  the  building  of  the  present  Cathedral,  which 
had  been  discovered,  during  the  late  restorations,  used  promiscuously 
as  ordinary  building  materials  in  the  present  structure. 

By  the  Rev.  N.  R.  Brunskill :  a  groat  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 
found  nearBurnchurch. 

By  Mr.  John  S.  O'Brien,  Mullinahone  :  a  copper  farthing  of 
Queen  Anne  (date  171 1 )—  one  of  those  coins  vulgarly  and  falsely 
supposed  to  be  of  such  immense  value,  but,  nevertheless,  tolerably 

rare. 

By  Mr.  Bettesworth  Lawless  :  the  Irish  sixpence  of  James  I., 
which  he  had  exhibited  at  the  last  meeting  of  the  Society. 

By  Mr.  Prim:  a  specimen  of  the  curious  metal  castings  found  so 
frequently  in  Kilkenny  city  and  county,  and  concerning  the  origin 
or  use  of  which,  although  obviously  of  rather  modern  workmanship, 
nothing  had  yet  been  discovered.  The  present  specimen  repre- 
sented a  Highlander,  in  full  costume,  and  thus  differed  in  design 
from  any  of  those  previously  placed  in  the  Museum.  Mr.  Prim 
said  he  bought  it  from  a  local  dealer,  who  stated  that  he  had 
obtained  it  from  a  countrywoman,  who  told  him  that  it  had  been 
turned  up  by  the  plough  near  the  city. 

By  Mr.  T.  W.  Kershaw,  Kilmoganny:  a  number  of  silver 
and  copper  coins — amongst  the  former  a  penny  of  Edward  I. 
struck  at  Canterbury,  a  sixpence  of  Elizabeth,  and  a  groat  of 
Charles  II.;  amongst  the  latter  were  several  eighteenth  century 
Tradesmen's  Tokens. 

The  Rev.  J.  Graves,  Hon.  Sec.,  laid  before  the  meeting  a  letter 
received  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
National  Exhibition  of  Works  of  Art  to  be  held  at  Leeds  next 
year,  asking  that  a  loan  might  be  given  them,  on  an  undertaking 
for  safe  return,  of  any  objects  in  the  Museum  of  the  Kilkenny 


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Archaeological  Society,  suitable  to  complete  the  collection  which 
they  intend  to  form  temporarily  next  year  at  Leeds,  of  objects  in 
the  Celtic,  Anglo-Saxon,  Romanesque,  Mediaeval,  and  Renaissance 
styles,  so  as  to  afford  the  public  an  impressive  idea  of  the  state  of 
art  during  each  of  those  epochs.  If  their  request  was  granted,  Mr. 
Chaffers,  the  superintendent  of  that  department,  would  be  happy  to 
visit  and  select  for  the  purpose. 

On  the  motion  of  Major  St.  George,  it  was  resolved  that  Mr. 
Chaffers  should  have  access  to  the  Museum  for  the  purpose  pro- 
posed. 

Mr.  Graves  said  that,  no  doubt,  the  members  were  aware,  from  the 
notices  of  the  matter  in  the  newspapers,  that  the  north-east  turret  of 
the  belfry  tower  of  Jerpoint  Abbey  had  been  struck  by  lightning  dur- 
ing the  thunder  storm  of  the  13th  of  last  August.  Theinjury  done  was 
not  at  all  so  serious  as  might  havebeen  expected  from  such  a  visitation, 
but  the  pinnacles  and  portion  of  the  parapet  of  that  turret  had  been 
thrown  down.  He  had  met  Mr.  Blake — the  nearest  resident  mem- 
ber of  their  Committee,  and  from  whom  he  had  the  first  intimation 
of  what  had  occurred — at  the  Abbey  a  couple  of  days  after ;  and 
upon  a  careful  inspection  of  the  injury  done,  they  resolved  that  it 
was  necessary  to  take  proper  precautions  against  the  wall  being 
sapped  by  the  weather  beating  on  the  ruined  part,  but  that  it 
would  be  useless  to  attempt  to  rebuild  the  parapet  which  had  been 
injured,  as  it  should  be  a  bit  of  new  building  which  would  not  har- 
monise with  the  whole.  Mr.  Blake  having  kindly  undertaken  to 
superintend  the  work,  he  (Mr.  Graves),  had  taken  upon  himself  to 
guarantee  the  repayment  to  him  by  the  Society  of  the  sum  neces- 
sary to  be  expended  for  the  purpose.  He  had  since  received  the 
following  very  satisfactory  announcement  from  that  gentleman : — 

3 1st  August,  1867. 

"  REV.  AND  DEAR  SIR, — I  have  had  everything  done  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  the  turret,  which  was  lately  struck  by  lightning,  at  Jerpoint 
Abbey.  All  the  cracks  and  breaches  made  by  the  shock  are  completely 
stopped  with  finely  tempered  mortar.  I  was  particular  in  going  to  the 
Abbey  and  superintending  the  work,  to  ensure  that  it  would  he  properly 
done,  and  with  safety  to  the  persons  I  had  employed.  I  assure  you  I  felt 
great  ease  of  mind  when  I  had  the  work  done,  and  got  my  men  safe  again 
on  honest  mother  earth,  for  the  footway  on  the  walls  is  very  slippery, 
from  the  slimy  moss  growing  on  the  flags.  The  expense  of  this  small 
affair  has  been  so  trifling  that  you  must  not  think  it  a  generous  act  for 
me  to  make  no  charge  to  the  Archaeological  Society. 
"  Believe  me  to  remain, 

"Very  faithfully  yours, 

"  JAMES  S.  BLAKE." 

He  (Mr.  Graves),  felt  assured  that  the  members  present  would 
express  their  gratitude  to  Mr.  Blake  for  his  zeal  and  liberality  in 
the  matter. 


208 

On  the  motion  of  Mr.  Bracken,  C.  I.,  it  was  unanimously 
resolved  that  a  vote  of  thanks  should  be  given  to  Mr.  Blake  for  his 
zeal  and  liberal  services  towards  the  repair  of  the  abbey. 

Mr.  Kobertson  exhibited  a  very  interesting  and  curious  ancient 
bronze  medal,  having  on  one  side  the  bust  of  a  figure,  in  very  high 
relief,  and  on  the  reverse  an  inscription  in  characters  which  were 
quite  strange  to  all  who  examined  it.  Mr.  Robertson  said  it  had 
been  found  by  the  Kev.  E.  Walsh,  P.  P.,  Mooncoin,  in  digging  the 
foundations  for  a  new  church  there,  and  had  been  entrusted  to  him 
by  the  Rev.  gentleman,  in  order  to  his  discovering,  if  possible,  to 
what  age  and  country  it  belonged.  He  had  communicated  with 
Mr.  Lindsay,  of  Cork,  the  well-known  numismatist,  but  his  answer 
was: — 

"  The  coin  or  medal  is  a  very  singular  one,  but  I  am  sorry  to  say  I 
am  unable  to  give  you  much  information  relative  to  it,  not  being 
acquainted  with  the  characters  on  the  reverse,  which  bear  considerable 
resemblence  to  the  Cufic ;  but  the  obverse,  which  bears  a  head,  would 
alone  be  sufficient  to  show  that  we  must  look  for  an  interpretation  to 
some  other  alphabet." 

Mr.  Sainthill,  of  Cork,  no  mean  authority  in  numismatic 
matters,  had  been  also  applied  to,  whose  reply  was : — 

"As  far  as  I  may  venture  to  express  an  opinion  on  it,  not  having 
seen  or  read  of  anything  resembling  it,  I  think  it  is  a  medal,  cast,  not 
struck,  in  a  steel  die,  and  represents,  most  probably,  some  Oriental  per- 
sonage, civil  or  clerical,  with  an  inscription  in  the  language  of  the  country 
in  which  it  was  fabricated,  we  may  presume  giving  the  name  of  the  person 
whose  bust  is  on  the  other  side.  I  have  not  seen  the  characters  on  any 
Oriental  coinage.  .  .  .  The  medal  is  Christian,  the  Khoran  forbidding 
portraits,  and  that  on  the  reverse  seems  clerical." 

Mr.  Sainthill  had  further  suggested  that  the  medal  ought  to  be 
sent  for  identification,  if  possible,  to  the  Medal-room  at  the  British 
Museum,  or  to  the  College  of  the  Propaganda  at  Rome ;  but  Mr. 
Robertson  said  he  had  no  authority  to  retain  it  longer  than  for 
exhibition  at  this  meeting  of  the  Society.  Some  Hebrew  scholars 
had  informed  him  that  a  couple  of  the  'characters  in  the  inscription 
resembled  Hebrew  letters. 

Mr.  Graves  suggested  that  there  was  an  appearance  of  some- 
thing resembling  the  cornu  ammonis  on  the  head  of  the  figure,  in 
which  case  it  should  belong  to  pagan  art;  but  the  appearance  to 
which  he  alluded  might  be  referrible  to  the  arrangement  of  the 
hair,  and  the  head  had  very  much  the  appearance  of  that  of  a  Chris- 
tian ecclesiastic. 

Mr.  Robertson  also  exhibited  a  bronze  pin  from  his  own  collec- 
tion, with  a  curiously  ornamented  head,  which  seemed  to  be  unique. 


209 

The  Rev.  Newport  B.  White,  Glasson,  Athlone,  communi- 
cated the  fact  that,  about  two  years  since,  a  young  man  in  his 
neighbourhood,  fishing  in  the  Auburn  lake,  near  the  ruins  of  the 
Abbey  of  Kilkenny-West,  found  an  ancient  bell,  made  of  a  single 
sheet  of  iron,  riveted  at  the  sides,  and  covered  with  bronze,  into 
which  it  had  been  dipped.  It  was  of  the  square  shape  :  2  feet  3 
inches  round  the  mouth,  5  inches  at  the  top,  and  10  inches  in 
height.  When  found,  the  tongue  was  gone,  but  the  place  for  it, 
and  the  handle,  were  perfect ;  both,  however,  were  since  broken 
off  by  the  finder,  to  make  it  more  handy  for  holding  bait !  How- 
ever, since  using  it  thus,  the  finder  was  disposed  to  value  it  more, 
as  he  had  arrived  at  the  conclusion  that  it  was  the  bell  belonging 
to  the  old  abbey,  for  which,  he  says,  there  has  been  a  search  for 
the  last  two  centuries.  The  bronze  coating  had  nearly  all  fallen 
off,  but  some  patches  remained  still  attached  to  the  bell. 

Mr.  Samuel  Shaw,  of  Andover,  England,  communicated  the 
circumstances  of  a  fine  gold  penannular  ring,  similar  to  those  fre- 
quently found  in  Ireland,  having  been  turned  up  near  Andover  not 
long  since.  It  weighed  203  grains,  and  was  now  in  his  posses- 
sion. 

Mr.  Lecky,  Ballykealy,  county  of  Carlow,  wrote  to  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Graves,  referring  to  the  account  of  the  discoveries  made  in 
1853  of  a  number  of  fine  fictile  urns  in  the  course  of  the  explora- 
tion of  Pagan  cists  at  Ballon  Hill,  on  his  property — a  full  account 
of  which  was  given  by  Mr.  Graves  in  the  Society's  "  Transactions'*  at 
the  time,  with  numerous  illustrations.  Mr.  Lecky  now  mentioned 
that,  since  his  return  from  the  South  of  Europe  in  July  last,  he 
had  some  fresh  excavations  made  in  the  Ballon  cemetery,  and  he  had 
found  several  cists,  and  some  even  of  a  smaller  size  than  those  found 
in  1853,  but  in  all  were  discovered  only  the  remains  of  burned  bones, 
deposited  without  any  vessel  to  contain  them.  He  suggested  that 
these  were  probably  the  cists  or  burial  places  of  poorer  persons 
than  those  for  whom  the  urns  had  been  placed.  He  supplied 
details  of  the  construction  of  the  cists  as  follows : — 

11  Though  rude,  these  cists'  were  carefully  and  perfectly  closed,  and 
well  secured  with  a  cover-stone;  they  were  irregular  in  form,  approach- 
ing to  a  round  or  oval,  as  the  form  and  shape  of  the  stones  suited.  There 
is  not  any  instance  of  a  tool  having  been  used  on  any  of  the  stones  em- 
ployed. These  cists  are  18  inches,  or  2  feet,  or  so,  in  diameter.  In 
these  diggings  I  found  two  or  three  sunken  pits,  where  they  had  burnt 
the  bodies.  There  was  a  quantity  of  charcoal  about  the  place,  and  marks 
of  fire  on  the  stones  still  visible.  On  one  or  two  of  the  cover-stones  of 
the  cists  the  traces  of  fire  were  strongly  marked  on  one  side.  They 
probably  had  been  made  use  of  at  the  fire  where  the  bodies  were  burnt, 
and  afterwards  used  for  cover-stones  of  the  cists. 


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«•  These  possibly,  as  already  observed,  may  have  been  the  cists  of 
poorer  individuals— being  ruder  in  their  formation  and  smaller  than 
those  on  other  parts  of  the  Hill,  and  the  remains  of  the  burnt  bones  being 
deposited  in  the  cists  without  urns— possibly,  to  avoid  expense  and 
trouble.  If  this  be  so,  the  burning  the  body  (which  was  itself  a 
troublesome  process)  was  probably  either  a  religious  rite  or  an  invariable 

"  Two  of  these  cists  I  have  had  removed  from  the  Hill  to  the  grounds 
near  the  house  here,  and  fixed  in  the  same  position  in  which  they  were 
on  the  Hill.  I  had  every  stone  of  each  accurately  numbered  and  marked, 
so  that  they  are  now  exactly  in  the  position  and  form  in  which  they 
originally  were  placed— the  sides,  cover-stones,  directions  as  to  the 
points  of  the  compass,  and  all ;  and  I  have  had  the  bones  and  charcoal 
found  in  each  carefully  re-deposited  in  them.  One  very  long  one 
on  the  Hill  (in  which  was  found  two  urns)  I  have  had  restored  exactly 
as  it  was,  and  in  the  same  spot.  So  that  antiquarians  now— or  in 
future  years— can  see  three  examples  of  the  cists  precisely  as  they 
were  in  every  respect.  In  the  library  there  are  preserved  the  urns, 
with  the  bones  and  the  charcoal  (made  by  the  wood  that  burnt  the 
bodies),  as  fresh  looking  as  if  made  yesterday;  the  fractures  show- 
ing sharp  angles,  and  the  texture  unimpaired  by  time,  and  black,  and 
shining— showing  a  wonderful  example  of  the  preserving  quality  of 
charcoal.  Anything  that  carries  one  back  to  such  very  remote  antiquity 
becomes  highly  interesting ;  and  these  remains  may  probably  be  (as 
Petrie  thought  them)  of  an  age  prior  to  the  Christian  era. 

"  It  is  not  foreign  to  this  interesting  subject  to  remember  that  the 
old  people  have  a  tradition  of  there  having  been  a  circle  of  stones  on  a 
part  of  the  Hill — 'upright,  and  in  a  large  circle.'  They  say  that  these 
were  taken  away  from  time  to  tim?  for  building  and  other  purposes. 
And  on  the  part  of  the  Hill  which  their  tradition  marks  out  for  this, 
have  been  found  the  best  cists  and  the  best  urns.  Their  tradition  also 
tells  that,  in  times  'gone  by,'  individuals  have  found  as  many  as  up  to 
fourteen  urns  in  a  day,  which  they  broke  and  threw  away  as  useless, 
when  they  found  that  there  was  neither  money  nor  treasure  therein,  so 
that  it  is  now  very  difficult  to  find  urns  or  any  remains." 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Graves  read  the  following  letter  from  Lord 
Gort,  having  reference  to  a  note  on  the  Kildare  Rent-Roll,  Vol.  V., 
new  series,  p.  518,  explanatory  of  the  suggestion  there  implied  that 
the  Earls  of  Kildare  were  head  lords  of  the  Cogan  estate  : — 

"  I  see  that  the  possession  of  the  advowson  of  Beauver  is  thought  to 
imply  that  the  Earls  of  Kildare  were  head  lords  of  the  Cogan  estate 
there.  This  requires  explanation. 

"In  1206,  King  John  granted  to  Philip  de  Prendergast,  eldest  son 
of  Strongbow's  famous  companion,  Maurice,  a  large  territory  near  Cork, 
of  which  Beauver  (Bebh  Or,  the  golden  rock?)  was  the  chief  seat,  and 
which  included  Shandon,  Ocorblethan,  and  the  whole  or  greater  part  of 
Kerricurrihy.  At  about  the  same  time,  five  knights'  fees  in  the  same 


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neighbourhood  were  confirmed  by  John  to  Richard  de  Cogan,  to  whom 
Fitz  Stephen  had  granted  them.  (Harris'  Ware,  ii.  195.) 

"  In  these  estates,  as  well  as  in  the  Lordship  of  Enniscorthy,  and 
Barony  of  Duffryn,  county  Wexford,  Philip  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest 
son  Gerald.  This  Gerald  was  twice  married;  first  to  Matilda,  daughter 
of  Theobald  le  Botiller,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter,  Maria  ;  and 
secondly,  to  a  daughter  of  Richard  de  Burgo,  whose  name  I  have  not  found, 
by  whom  he  had  another  daughter,  Matilda.  To  his  large  estates  they 
were  co-heirs;  and  the  former  married  John  de  Cogan,  Lord  Justice  of 
Ireland,  the  latter  marrying  Maurice  de  Rochford.  Matilda's  son  and 
heir,  Maurice,  recovered  the  advowson  of  Beauver  from  the  Bishop  of 
Cork  (see  Plea  Roll,  No.  72,  5  Edw.  II.)  as  appendant  to  his  moiety  of 
the  manor  of  Beauver,  derived  from  Gerald  de  Prendergast,  and  from 
him  the  Earls  of  Kildare  inherited.  The  other  half  of  this  manor  came 
to  Cogan.  In  1263,  in  a  suit  as  to  a  right  to  mills  on  the  river  Balla- 
chuth  or  Avonbeg,  Maurice  Fitz  Maurice  (Rochford)  and  John  Fitz  John 
de  Cogan  are  both  called  as  heirs  of  Gerald  de  Prendergast  to  produce 
his  grant  of  these  mills.  But,  eventually,  a  new  partition  of  the  estates 
on  a  better  principle  appears  to  have  been  made  between  the  Cogans  and 
Rochfords,  although  the  apportionment  of  the  Church  patronage  was 
apparently  not  altered  ;  for  the  Cogans  are  found  possessed  of  both 
moieties  of  this  Ballachuth,  Beauver,  Shandon,  &c.,  until  Robert  de 
Cogan  granted  them  to  the  Earls  of  Desmond  in  1439  (the  Geraldines 
being,  perhaps,  in  spite  of  Sir  P.  Carew,  heirs  general  of  Sir  John  de 
Cogan),  whilst  the  Rochfords  similarly  held  the  entire  of  the  Wexford 
estates,  being  Lords  of  Enniscorthy  in  1302  (Inquis.  30  Edw.  II.),  and 
holding  the  '  Barony  of  Duffir'  in  1411.  (Carew  MSS.) 

"  This  barony  of  Duffryn  belonged  to  Maude,  the  wife  of  Philip  de 
Prendergast.  Earl  Strongbow  gave  his  daughter,  with  the  office  of 
Constable  and  Standard-bearer  of  Leinster,  to  Robert  de  Quincy,  who 
was  soon  after  slain,  when  these  offices  were  rightly  inherited  by  his 
only  child,  Maude,  who  eventually  married  Philip  de  Prendergast  ;  and 
it  was  his  wish  to  hold  them  which  led  Raymond  le  Gros  to  quarrel 
with  Strongbow. 

"  We  have  much  to  learn  yet  as  to  the  pedigree  of  the  Pembroke 
branch  of  the  De  Clares.  I  believe  Strongbow  to  have  had  more  than  one 
legitimate  child." 

Mr.  Prim  contributed  the  following  transcript,  from  a  petition  to 
the  Duke  of  Ormonde,  as  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  in  1663, 
from  the  Petition  Books  of  the  period  in  the  Evidence  Chamber  of 
Kilkenny  Castle ;  it  was  interesting,  as  bearing  on  the  existence  of 
wolves  in  Ireland  in  the  latter  end  of  the  1 7th  century  : — 

"  The  Peticon  of  {     "  That  yor  Graces  petr  through  God's  assistance 

William  Collowe     /  and  his  owne  industry  hath  found  a  way  for  the 

destroying  the  Ravenous  Wolfe  &  other  vermin,  wch  much  Annoy  his 

maties  subjects  the  poor  inhabitants  of  this  kingdome,  &  being  desirous  to 

improve  his  tallent  he  is  now  lately  arived  in  this  kingdome  &  purposeth 


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with  God's  assistants  &  yr  Graces  Comission  to  goe  on  upon  the  worke 
with  all  Expedicon.  May  it  therefore  please  yor  Grace  to  grant  yor  ordr 
to  yr  petr  and  his  assistants  to  use  all  means  and  to  have  free  Egresse  &  re- 
gresse  in  all  places  in  this  kingdome.  for  the  doeing  of  the  worke  above 
menconed.  And  allsoe  that  all  Justices  of  the  peace,  majo",  sherriffs  and 
other  officers  may  be  required  to  punish  &  restraine  all  persons,  or  any 
person,  that  shall  use  the  same  way  with  yor  Graces  supld,  until  he  hath 
perfected  his  worke  in  killing  the  wolves  of  this  kingdome  (his  way  being 
more  then  ordinary,  and  never  knowne  in  this  Kingdome,  allthough  it  may 
be  without  much  difficulty  attained  and  stollen  from  yor  petr  he  having 
once  layd  the  ground  worke),  except  as  shalbe  deputated  by  him,  &  all- 
soe that  Justices  within  this  kingdome  shall  order  such  sattisfacon  to  be 
given  yor  Graces  petr  for  each  wolfe  destroyed  by  him  &  his  as  in  yor 
Graces  wisdome  shall  thinke  fitt:  all  which  he  submitts  to  yor  Grace  &  de- 
sists 

"  Yor  Graces  day  ly  Orator 

"  WILL.  COLLOWE." 
[Indorsement.] 

"  Dublin  Castle  29°  April  1663. 

"  Lett  this  Peticon  be  presented  unto  us  att  our  next  sitting  att  the 
Councell  Board,  where  the  shalbe  taken  into  Consideracon,  &  such  further 
order  given  thereuppon  as  shalbe  thought  fitt. 

"  ORMONDE." 

The  Rev.  John  O'Hanlon,  R.  C.  C.,  M.R.I.  A.,  sent  the  follow- 
ing and  concluding  contribution  to  his  valuable  series  of  papers, 
descriptive  of  the  materials  for  the  Topography  and  History  of  the 
various  Counties  of  Ireland,  collected  by  the  officers  of  the  Ordnance 
Survey  of  Ireland.  The  portion  now  sent  related  to  the  Counties 
of  Mayo,  Gahvay,  and  Leitrim  :  — 

"  The  Catalogue  of  the  Topographical  Collection  for  Mayo,  in  the  Irish 
Ordnance  Survey  Office,  enumerates  these  following  Records:—  I.  Inqui- 
sitions, 2  vols.,  part  with  Roscommon  ;  Rough  Index  to  ditto.  J  II.  Names 
from  Down  Survey  (see  Connaught  volume).  III.  Extracts,  2  vols.2  In- 
dex of  Places  to  Irish  part,  not  arranged.3  IV.  Copy  of  Stafford's  Survey 
(MS.),  2  vols.,  and  Index.  Common  Place  Books,  Q  and  R.  V.  Letters, 
2  vols.4  VI.  Name  Books,  142.  VII.  Parish  and  Barony  Names,  1  vol. 
VIII.  Memorandums,  1  vol.  IX.  Index  to  Names  on  Maps,  2  vols.  X. 
Ancient  Map.  XI.  County  Query  Book,  1833.  XII.  Memoir  Papers 
(see  detailed  list  annexed). 

"  II.  The  Names  from  Down  Survey  have  been  alluded  to  already  in 
the  Connaught  volume,  the  contents  of  which  have  been  mentioned.  ' 

.II.  The  4to  bound  volumes  of  Extracts  have  References  and  Indices 
prefixed.     Vol.  i.  contains  375  numbered  pages  and  written;  besides  ten 


•                       ire.inOW  Preserved  3  Thi.  ^dex  is  now  arranged,    and 

in  the  Royal  Irish  Academy's  Library.  bound  in  with  both  volumes. 

n  thT  R      Ti  TU™J8  Aare,now,  P^ved  <  These  volumes  are  now  preserved 

Royal  Insh  Academy  s  Library.  in  the  Royal  Irish  Academy's  Library. 


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pages  of  new  Index  with  twenty  of  an  old  Index  bound  up  in  the  middle 
of  this  volume.  It  includes  Extracts  from  a  MS.  of  Trinity  College, 
H.I.  6 ;  from  O'Gara  MS.,  R.  I.  A. ;  from  O'Clery  MS.,  R.  I.  A. ;  from  '  Book 
of  Ballymote;' from  an  English  MS.  History  of  Ireland,  R.I.  A.;  from 
'  Leabhar  Breac ;'  from  a  MS.  of  Trinity  College,  H.  2.  16;  from  O'Dugan's 
Topographical  Poem;  from  M'Firbis'  Pedigrees;  from  MS.  of  Trinity 
College,  H.  2.  17;  from  MS.  of  Trinity  College,  H.  1.  17;  from  'Book  of 
Lecan;'  from  Poem  by  M'Firbis,  on  the  Topography  of  the  Tribe-land  of 
Mayo  and  Sligo;  from  '  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters;'  from  Colgan's  '  Acta 
Sanctorum  Hibernise'  and  '  Trias  Thaumaturga;'  from  Betham's  'Irish 
Antiquarian  Researches;' from  Ussher's  '  Primordia;' from  O'Flaherty's 
'  Ogygia;'  from  De  Burgo's  '  Hibernia  Dominicana;'  from  O'Connell's 
'  Dictionary,'  T.  C.  D. ;  from  Lanigan's  *  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland ;' 
from  Book  of  Survey  and  Distribution;  from  Inquisitions;  and  from 
Stratford's  Survey  of  the  County  Mayo.  Vol.  ii.  contains  346  numbered 
and  written  pages,  with  nineteen  additional  pages  of  Indices.  It  includes 
Extracts  from  Archdall's  *  Monasticon  Hibernicurn  ;'  from  'Annals  of  the 
Four  Masters;'  from  Irish  Calendar  of  Saints;  from  Colgan's  '  Trias  Thau- 
maturga' and  'Acta  Sanctorum  Hibernise  ;'  from  O' Flaherty's  'Ogy- 
gia;' from  Lanigan's  'Ecclesiastical  History;'  from  M'Parland's  'Sta- 
tistical Survey;'  from  Mr.  Petrie's  Collections;  from  '  Tour  through  Con- 
naught  in  1779/  under  the  direction  of  Right  Hon.  William  Burton;  from 
Ussher's  'Primordia;'  and  from  an  Inquisition  taken  at  Cong  in  1609. 
The  foregoing  Extracts  are  in  Irish,  English,  and  Latin.  Besides,  we  find  in 
this  volume  tracings  of  the  following  Maps  at  the  end,  viz. : — 1 .  Cl.Ptolemsei 
Geographia  Hiberniae.  The  remaining  eight  Maps  from  the  Down  Survey 
illustrate  these  several  baronies,  viz. : — 2.  Burrishoole  ;  3.  Clonmorris  ; 
4.  Carrah  ;  5.  Costello;  6.  Erris;  7.  Killmaine;  8.  Murrisk;  9.  Tirawley. 

"IV.  The  two  4to  MS.  volumes  of  Strafford's  Survey  (copy  from 
original  in  R.  I.  A.),  with  Index,  are  found  in  the  uniform  style  of  volumes 
already  transferred  to  the  Royal  Irish  Academy.  The  first  volume  is 
neatly  written  and  folio-paged  166.  It  is  preceded  by  28  double-columned 
and  closely -written  pages  of  an  Alphabetical  Index  of  Personal  Names. 
The  second  volume  contains  folio-paging  from  1 66  to  322,  in  a  like  style 
of  writing  as  in  the  first.  It  is  followed  by  175  pages  of  a  local  deno- 
minational Index,  in  single  columns,  and  with  reference  to  the  pages, 
where  each  townland  is  named. 

"  V.  The  two  quarto  MS.  volumes  of  Antiquarian  Letters,  are 
bound  in  the  uniform  style  for  the  Royal  Irish  Academy.  The  first 
volume  contains  504  numbered  and  written  pages  *  besides  42  pages  of  a 
preceding  index.  The  first  is  an  anonymous  fragment  or  communication 
of  14  pages,  and  it  is  without  date.  The  next  letter  was  written  by  Mr. 
O'Donovan,  as  were  also  many  other  letters  that  follow.  This  is  the 
series,  with  dates  and  address.  Ballina,  Tirawley,  May  12th,  1838  ;  do. 
15th,  do.  15th,  do.  17th,  do.  22nd  ;  Binghamstown,  May  30th,  do.  June 
5th,  do.  9th  ;  Westport,  June  23rd,  do.  30th,  do.  25th,  do.  26th,  do. 
29th,  do.  July  3rd,  do.  3rd,  do.  9th,  do.  13th,  do.  14th  ;  in  all  eighteen 
letters  by  Mr.  O' Donovan.  Two  letters  are  dated  21,  Great  Charles-street, 
Dublin — one  of  these  on  the  llth,  and  the  other  on  the  12th  of  June,  1838. 
Both  were  written  by  George  Petrie,  Esq.  These  following  letters  have 


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been  written  by  Mr.  T.  O'Conor,  and  they  are  severally  distinguished. 
Ballina,  May  14th,  1838,  do.  22nd;  Killala,  May  30th,  do.  June  3rd,  do. 
5th  do.  7th,  do.  8th;  Ballycastle,  June  13th,  do.  13th,  do.  15th;  Ballina, 
June  19th,  do.  21st,  do.  22nd;  Foxford,  June  23rd,  do.  27th,  do.  27th, 
do.  29th,  do.  30th,  do.  July  3rd;  Swineford,  July  9th,  do.  10th;  Ballagh- 
aderreen,  July  13th,  do.  14th;  Claremorris,  July  15th;  —  in  all  24 
letters  by  Mr.  O'Conor.  The  second  volume  contains  508  numbered 
and  written  pages,  besides  36  pages  of  a  preceding  index.  The  follow- 
ing letters,  as  addressed  and  dated,  were  written  by  Mr.  O' Donovan,  viz.: 
TVestport,  July  17th,  1838;  Ballinrobe,  Friday,  July  20th,  do.  25th,  do. 
27th,  do.  29th,  do.  31st;  do.  August  2nd,  do.  6th,  do.  12th,  do.  13th; 
also  communications — one  dated  May  15th,  1841;  another  is  undated; 
while  the  last  is  headed,  April  13th,  1841.  In  all,  there  are  thirteen 
letters — many  of  these  have  been  written  at  great  length  by  Mr. 
O' Donovan.  Mr.  Petrie  has  written  one  letter,  which  is  headed,  21, 
Great  Charles-street,  7th  September,  1838.  The  following  letters  have 
been  written  by  Mr.  T.  O'Conor,  viz.:  Ballyhaunas,  July  17th,  1838,  do. 
18th;  do.  Castlebar,  July  30th,  do.  August  1st;  do.  Ballinrobe,  Aug. 
llth,  do.  13th,  do.  14th,  do.  15th,  do.  15th,  do.  16th,  do.  17th,  do.  18th; 
do.  Tuam,  21st,  do.  22nd;  do.  Mountrath,  Dec.  2nd — in  all  fifteen  letters. 
This  second  volume  also  contains  five  Maps,  on  tracing-paper,  viz.:  1. 
Mayo,  from  Speed's  'Prospect  of  the  most  famous  parts  of  the  World;' 
2.  Mayo,  from  Mercator's  '  Atlas ;'  3.  Mayo,  from  do. ;  4.  Mayo,  from 
'  Ortelius  improved ;'  5.  Mayo,  from  Down  Survey.  The  letters,  contained 
in  these  two  volumes,  are  filled  with  very  minute  and  valuable  topo- 
graphical and  antiquarian  information. 

u  VI.  The  Name  Books  are  142  in  number,  as  catalogued,  and  as 
found  on  counting  them.  They  are  similar  in  shape  and  contents  to  others 
of  the  series  already  described. 

"  VII.  The  Parish  and  Barony  Names  are  found  in  a  thin  4to  bound 
volume,  of  84  numbered  pages,  with  a  list  of  29  authorities  preceding. 
These  are  taken  from  Maps,  Surveys,  and  printed  Records.  As  usual, 
Dr.  O'Donovan  has  settled  the  orthography.  Irish  names,  in  the  Irish 
characters,  with  their  English  translations,  are  respectively  postfixed. 

"VIII.  The  Memorandums  are  found  in  one  bound  4to  volume  of 
fragmentary  notes  and  observations,  with  map-traces,  and  some  beautiful 
sketches  of  ancient  monuments.  This  MS.  has  374  numbered  pages,  with 
41  double-columned  pages  of  index  preceding.  This  volume  is  interest- 
ing, likewise,  for  local  antiquarian  research. 

'*  IX.  The  two  folio  bound  volumes  of  Index  to  Ordnance  Survey 
Maps — first  A  to  K,  and  second,  K  to  Z — resemble  all  others  belonging 
to  the  same  series  already  described.  The  first  volume  contains  99  leaves  ; 
the  second  volume  comprises  83  leaves.  The  local  denominations  are 
usually  found  in  triple  columns. 

"X.  The  Ancient  Map,  constructed  on  a  plan  precisely  similar  to  that 
of  Galway,  is  of  equal  value  to  the  antiquary.  It  may  yet  help  some 
Irish  <  Old  Mortality'  to  many  a  resting-place  of  the  dead,  and  to  the 
old  rums  yet  existing  in  Mayo.  Nearly  all  the  remarkable  ancient  fea- 
tures of  this  county  can  be  identified  by  means  of  this  Map,  so  laboriously 


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and  carefully  constructed  by  the  learned  and  researchful  Dr.  O' Donovan. 
As  an  antiquarian  and  topographer — 

'  He  was  a  man,  take  him  for  all  in  all, 
We  ne'er  shall  look  upon  his  like  again.' 

"XI.  The  County  Quzere  Book  for  Summer  Assizes  of  Mayo,  1833, 
is  a  small  8vo  pamphlet  of  104  pages,  and  printed  at  Castlebar  that  same 
year.  It  has  reference  to  County  Contracts  for  road  repairs,  and  for 
various  other  county  charges.  It  may  interest  the  statistician,  hereafter, 
but  it  is  of  little  antiquarian  value,  at  present. 

"XII.  The  Catalogue,  when  alluding  to  the  Memoir  Papers  for  Mayo, 
refers  us  to  the  detailed  list  of  such  documents.  On  examination,  we 
find  nothing  but  what  is  contained  under  the  heading,  *  Miscellanies  re- 
lating to  various  Counties.'  What  refers  to  Mayo  is  to  be  found  in  the 
press,  shelf  2,  Irish  Ordnance  Survey  Library. 

"There  are  no  distinct  antiquarian  sketches  of  ruins  for  this  county. 

"  The  following  heads  of  subjects  are  taken  from  the  Catalogue  of 
Topographical  Collections  for  Galway  in  the  Irish  Ordnance  Survey 
Office  : — I.  Inquisitions,  4  volumes,  including  part  of  Leitrim ;  Rough 
Index  of  places,1  to  do.  II.  Names  from  Down  Survey,  see  Connaught 
volume.  III.  Extracts,  2  volumes ;  Rough  Index  of  Places  to  do.3 
IV.  Letters,  3  volumes.3  V.  Name  Books,  242,  and  one  duplicate  book. 
VI.  Parish  and  Barony  Names,  1  volume.  VII.  Memorandums,  2 
volumes.  VIII.  County  Index  to  Names  on  Maps,  2  volumes.  IX. 
Ancient  Map.  X.  Memoir  Papers  (see  detailed  list  annexed).  XI. 
Sketches  of  Antiquities,  464,  not  including  those  bound  up  with  the 
letters. 

"  I.  The  Inquisitions  for  the  County  have  been  already  described  in 
this  '  Journal,'  vol.  ii.,  new  series,  1858,  note  2,  p.  103.  But  it  must 
be  remarked,  that  the  fourth  volume  of  these  County  Inquisitions,  there 
noted  as  *  VOL.  XXIV.,  GALWAY  AND  LEITBIM  INQUISITIONS,'  contains  at 
present  129  numbered  and  written  pages — not  192  as  there  stated. 
Again,  the  Rough  Index  has  disappeared ;  and  instead  of  it  we  find  one 
newly  written,  consisting  of  481  pages  of  index  to  the  Galway  Inquisi- 
tions. Besides  these  is  an  index  to  the  two  volumes  of  Galway  Extracts. 
These  indices  are  postfixed  with  the  fourth  volume. 

"  II.  The  Names  from  Down  Survey  relating  to  this  county  are  found 
in  the  Connaught  volume,  which  has  been  already  described  in  connexion 
with  the  County  of  Sligo  Records. 

"  III.  The  First  Volume  of  Extracts  (4to,  bound)  contains  630  written 
and  numbered  pages,  together  with  an  index  of  six  columns  prefixed. 
The  second  volume  contains  647  written  and  numbered  pages.  These 
Extracts  are  taken  from  Colgan's  *  Acta  Sanctorum  Hiberniae;'  'Trias 
Thaumaturga ;'  Lanigan's  'Ecclesiastical  History  of  Ireland;'  Irish  Ca- 
lendar; many  Notes  of  George  Petrie  and  Eugene  O'Curry ;  an  English 

1  These  are  now   preserved  in  the          3  These  are    now    preserved  iu  the 
Royal  Irish  Academy's  Library.  Royal  Irish  Academy's  Library. 

2  These  are    now  preserved  in  the          4  These    are    now   preserved  in  the 
Royal  Irish  Academy's  Library.  Royal  Irish  Academy. 


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MS  labelled  'History  of  Ireland,  R.  I.  A.;'  Giraldus'  '  Topographia  Hi- 
bernite-'  A  Latin  Valuation  of  the  Diocese  of  Clonfert;  Archdall's  4  Peer- 
ige-"  Hardiman's  'History  of  Galway;'  Museum  Britannicum  Bibl. 
Had.  No.  35.  7,  fol.  235  b.;  O'Flaherty's  'Ogygia;*  Genealogies;  'Liber 
Regalis  Visitationis;'  Inquisitions;  'Archdall's  Monasticon  Hibernicum ; 
'Annals  of  Four  Masters;'  'The  Territory  of  West  or  HiarConnaught,'  MS., 
T  C  D  -Copy  of  a  MS.  in  Trinity  College  Library,  en  titled 'History  of  Gall- 
way,1  catalogued  I.  4-11.;  Table  of  Baronies  and  Parishes,  MS.,  T.C.D.; 
'Tour  through  Connaught  in  1779,'  under  the  direction  of  Rt.  Honourable 
Win  Burton-  Attainders,  1696,  '  Book  of  Lismore;'  M'Firbis;  Irish  Poem 
on  the  Burkes,  MS.,  T.C.D. ;  O'Gara  MS.,  R.I.  A. ; «  Leabhar  Breac ;'  O'Du- 
gan's  Topographical  Poem ;  '  Book  of  Lecan ;'  ',Book  of  Ballymote ;'  O'Clery 
MS.,  R.I.  A.;  'Book  of  Feenagh;'  Irish  Poem  on  Mount  Echtge,  MS., 
T.c'.D.',  H.  2.  16;  Do.  H.  3.  18;  Vita  St  Brendani  Abbatis  et  Confessoris, 
Ex  '*Codice  Kilkenniensi/  Marsh's  Library,  V.  3.  1.  4.  f.  56.  These  se- 
veral Extracts  are  in  the  English,  Irish,  and  Latin  languages. 

"IV.  The  first  volume  of  Antiquarian  Letters  (4to,  bound)  contains 
654  numbered  and  written  pages.  Besides,  there  are  36  pages  of  an 
index  prefixed.  John  O'Donovan  wrote  the  following  letters,  with  places 
and  dates  thus  noted:— Tuam,  24th  August  1838,  do.  28th,  do.  30th,  do. 
September  4th,  do.  9th,  do.  10th,  do.  13th,  do.  19th,  do.  20th,  do.  22; 
Galway,  September  27th,  do.,  do.  October  2nd,  do.  3rd,  do.  6th;  Lough- 
rea, October  10th,  do.  llth,  do.  llth,  do.  21st,  do.  23rd,  do.  23rd,  do. 
24th,  do.  25th; — in  all  twenty-three  letters.  Many  of  these  letters 
contain  rough  antiquarian  sketches,  and  some  of  them  are  lengthy. 
Thomas  O'Conor  wrote  the  following  letters — places  and  dates  thus  noted: 
Tuam,  August  31st,  1838,  do.  September  3rd,  do.  13th,  do.  24th;  Gal- 
way, September,  27,  do.  October  3rd.;  Loughrea,  October  9th,  do.  llth, 
do.  15th,  do.  16th,  do.  19th,  do.  21st,  do.  22nd,  do.  23rd,  do.  24th— in  all 
fifteen  letters.  P.  O'Keefe  writes  one  letter,  dated  Loughrea,  October, 
23rd.  George  Petrie  wrote  from  21,  Great  Charles-street,  Dublin,  31st 
August,  1838,  do.  8th  September,  1838,  do.  14th,  do.  26th,  do.  October 
1st,  do.  3rd,  do.  25th,  do.  November  9th, — in  all  eight  letters,  which  com- 
prise handsomely  executed,  but  rough  antiquarian  sketches.  The  second 
volume  of  Antiquarian  Letters  contains  631  numbered  and  written  pages, 
with  26  pages  of  index  prefixed.  John  O'Donovan  wrote  the  following 
letters,  with  places  and  dates  thus  noted: — Loughrea,  October  29th, 
1838  ;  do.  November  1st,  do.  3rd,  do.  5th,  do.  7th;  Gort,  November  10th; 
Mountrath,  November  15th,  do.  15th,  do.  2 1st,  do.  23rd,  do.  23rd;— in  all 
eleven  letters,  including  many  rough  antiquarian  sketches.  One  of 
these  is  a  very  lengthy  dissertation  on  the  ancient  territories  of  Galway.  P. 
O'Keefe  wrote  the  following  letters,  with  places  and  dates  thus  noted: — 
Loughrea,  November  3rd,  1838,  do.  6th,  do.  20th;  Mountrath,  November 
16th  ; — in  all  four  letters.  George  Petrie  wrote  one  letter,  dated  Dublin, 
21,  Great  Charles-street,  November  12,  1838.  Thomas  O'Conor  wrote 
the  following  letters,  with  places  and  dates  thus  noted:  —  Loughrea, 
October  27th,  1838;  Gort,  November  10th;  Mountrath,  November  16th, 
do.  17th,  do.  18th,  do.  19th,  do.  23rd;— in  all  seven  letters.  The  third 
volume  of  Antiquarian  Letters  contains  484  numbered  and  written  pages, 
with  25  pages  of  Index  prefixed.  John  O'Donovan  wrote  the  following 


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letters,  with  places  and  dates  thus  noted: — Gal  way,  May  29th,  1839; 
Oughterard,  May  31st,  do.  June  5th,  do.  June  10th;  Clifden,  June  14th, 
do.  16th;  Taylor's  Hill,  near  Galway,  22nd,  do.  22nd,  do.  22nd,  do. 
27th,  do.  July  3rd,  do.  8th,  do.  19th,  do.  20th,  do.  21st,  do.  22nd,  do. 
27th;  do.  August  3rd,  do  27th  ; — in  all  nineteen  letters.  One  of  these 
is  an  elaborate  and  a  lengthy  dissertation  on  antiquities.  Messrs.  Wake- 
man  and  Petrie  have  illustrated  these  letters  with  an  incredible  number 
of  beautiful  ink  sketches.  At  the  end  of  the  third  volume  I  find  the 
following  Map  Traces: — 1.  Province  de  Connacie  divisee  en  Dynasties 
pour  les  premiers  Siecles  du  Christianisme,  par  le  S.  Robert  de  Vaugondy 
(1757);  2.  Province  of  Connaught  old  map;  3.  Gallen  Barony,  from  Sir 
William  Petty 's  Map,  R.  I.  A. ;  4.  Galway,  from  Mercator's  •  Atlas'  (1636), 
two  traces;  5.  Do.,  three  traces;  6.  Do.,  the  Down  Survey;  7.  Do.,  Maps 
in  Speed's  '  Prospect  of  the  most  famous  parts  of  the  World'  (1610);  8. 
Do.  in  separate  baronies  from  Down  Survey;  9.  Modern  Hand  Sketch 
of  Galway  ;  10.  From  Norden's  *  Map  of  Ireland'  ('  State  Papers,'  R.  I.  A.) ; 

1 1 .  Leinster  and  Munster,  from  a  map  among  the  *  State  Papers,'  R.  I.  A. ; 

12.  Do.  do. 

u  V.  The  Name  Books  are  numbered  242,  with  one  duplicate  in  ad- 
dition; and  this  exactly  corresponds  with  their  enumeration.  The  dupli- 
cate Name  Book  was  written  to  replace  another  book,  considered  as 
erroneously  drawn  up;  and  all  of  these  Name  Books  exactly  correspond  in 
external  appearance  with  others  of  the  series  already  described. 

"  VI.  The  Parish  and  Barony  Name  Book  is  a  thin  4  to  volume  of  126 
pages,  nearly  all  of  which  contain  writing,  and  very  valuable  antiquarian 
and  topographical  information,  in  the  well  recognised  handwriting  of  the 
late  learned  Dr.  O'Donovan.  He  has  settled  the  local  nomenclature,  in 
Irish  and  English,  of  the  various  parishes,  and  has  given  many  corre- 
sponding illustrative  comments  throughout  this  volume.  It  is  preceded 
by  a  list  of  28  authorities  for  local  denominations,  selected  from  different 
Maps,  Surveys  and  other  Records. 

"  VII.  The  Memorandums  in  two  4to  bound  volumes  contain  various 
notes,  observations,  antiquarian  drawings,  map  traces,  &c.  Many  short 
comments  will  be  found  in  Dr.  O'Donovan's  handwriting.  The  first 
volume  contains  399  numbered  pages,  independently  of  22  closely-written 
pages, — an  index  of  contents  to  the  fragmentary  matter  following.  The 
second  volume  comprises  427  numbered  pages,  together  with  23  closely 
written  pages  of  a  double-columned  index  to  what  follows.  For  local 
antiquarian  and  topographical  purposes  these  volumes  are  interesting  and 
useful. 

"  VIII.  The  County  Index  to  Names  on  Maps  is  comprised  in  two  thick 
folio  bound  volumes.  The  first  volume  is  lettered  on  the  back  A  to  K. 
It  contains  123  leaves,  written  on  both  sides.  The  second  volume  is 
lettered  on  the  back  K  to  Z.  It  contains  113  leaves,  written  on  both 
sides.  The  denominations  usually  run  in  triple  columns;  and  in  form 
and  matter  these  volumes  are  uniform  with  others  of  the  same  class  al- 
ready described. 

"  IX.  The  Ancient  Map  of  Galway  was  formed  with  much  care  and 
labour  by  Dr.  O'Donovan,  who  erased  nearly  all  the  modern  names  of 
places,  from  a  County  Index  Map,  and  afterwards  filled,  in  his  own  hand- 


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writing,  the  Irish  names  in  the  Irish  characters.  The  Index  scale  is 
precisely  the  same  as  found  prefixed  to  all  the  County  and  Townland 
Maps  now  bound  in  large-sized  square  volumes.  It  need  scarcely  be  ob- 
served that  this  map  is  of  great  interest  and  value  to  all  engaged  in  historic 
inquiry,  especially  with  regard  to  the  ancient  churches,  monuments,  and 
territories  of  this  county. 

"  X.  The  Memoir  Papers  of  Galway  are  of  no  great  importance,  but 
they  have  been  already  described  under  the  heading  Miscellanies  re- 
lating to  various  Counties,  as  found  in  the  press,  shelf  2,  Irish  Ordnance 
Survey  Library. 

"  XI.  The  Sketches  of  Antiquities  for  Galway  County  are  as  follow : — 

1.  Parish Arran  Islands — Arran  More.  Cromwell's  fort.  2.  Part  of 

wall  of  Dun  Aengus.  3.  Tealagh  Enda's  church.  4.  Teampul  Benoin. 
5.  Teampul  Brecan.  6.  Teampul  Chiarain.  7.  East  Window  of  Teampul 
Chiarain.  8.  Teampul  Mac  Duagh.  9.  Doorway  of  Teampul  Mac  Duagh. 
10.  Inish  Maan  (Middle  Isle)  Kilcannonagh  church.  11.  Doorway  of 
Kilcannonagh  church.  12.  Window  of  Kilcannonagh  church.  13.  Inish- 
orior,  Kilgobnat.  14.  St.  Kevin's  church.  15.  Features  of  St.  Kevin's 
church.  16.  O'Brien's  castle.  17.  Parish — Cong.  Caislean  na  Circe, 
Lough  Corrib.  18.  Doorway  of  St.  Patrick's  church,  Incha  Goile.  19. 
Saints'  church.  20.  Stone  in  wall  of  Saints'  church.  21.  Stone  on  Incha 
Goile.  22.  Parish — Inishcaltra.  Part  of  a  stone  cross  on  Holy  Island.  23. 
Ancient  stone,  with  inscriptions.  24.  Church  and  Round  Tower  on  Inish 
Caltra.  25.  Parish — Kilcummin.  Castle  of  Aughnanure.  26.  Another 
view  of  it.  27.  Window  in  Aughnanure  Castle.  28.  Parish — Killannin. 
Church  of  Killannin,  called  Teampull  beg  na  neave.  29.  Parish — Kil- 
macduagh.  Cathedral  church  and  round  tower  of  Kilmacduagh.  30. 
Doorway  of  the  large  church  of  do.  31.  Do. — another  sketch.  32.  Door- 
way of  the  Round  Tower  of.  33.  Chapel  of  the  Virgin  at.  34.  Win- 
dow in  the  E.  gable  of  the  Virgin's  church  at.  35.  Church  of  John  the 
Baptist  at.  36.  Windows  in.  37-  Building  N.  E.  of  the  Round  Tower. 
38.  Parish — Moycullen.  Castle  of  the  Two  Hags.  39.  Parish — Moyrus, 
Ballynahinch  castle.  40.  Church  of  Mac  Dara.  41.  Do. — Another  sketch 
of  it.  42.  Old  church  of  Moyrus.  43.  Parish — Omey.  Ancient  stones 
near  the  church  on  High  Island.  44.  Do. — Ancient  stones  at.  45. 
Crosses  on  High  Island.  46.  Parish — Oranmore.  Doorway  of  round 
tower  of  Roscom.  47.  Stone  in  the  church-yard  at  Roscom. 

"The  Catalogue  enumerates  the  following  records,  as  the  Topographical 
collection  for  the  county  of  Leitrim:  viz. — 1.  Inquisitions,  2  volumes — 
one  volume  including  Roscommon,  and  part  with  Galway,  Rough  Index 
of  Places  to  do.1  2.  Names  from  Down  Survey  (see  Connaught  volume). 
3.  Extracts,  one  volume,  with  Cavan.8  4.  Letters,  1  volume,  with  Cavan.3 
5.  Name  Books,  51.  6.  Barony  and  Parish  Names,  one  volume.  7. 

1  Now  preserved  in  the  Royal  Irish  Academy's   Library.     On  referring  to 
Academy's  Library.    The  Rough  Index  page  33  of  the  Catalogue,  I  find  extracts 
of  1  laces  to  this  rolume  has  been  used  from  the   British  Museum  relating  to 
to  compile  a  better    and  later  Index,  Leitrim.     This  MS.  has  been  already 
which  will  now  be  found  attached  to  the  described. 

volume,  as  preserved  in  the  Academy.  a  NOW  preserved  in  the  Royal  Irish 

2  Now  preserved  in  the  Royal  Irish       Academy's  Library. 


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Memorandums,  one  volume.  8.  County  Index  to  Names  on  Maps.  9. 
Memoir  Papers  (see  detailed  list  annexed). 

"I.  The  Inquisitions  for  Leitrim  County  have  been  already  described 
in  this  'Journal,'  vol.  ii.,  new  series,  1858,  note  2,  p.  103,  and  are 
further  alluded  to,  in  the  papers  relating  to  the  county  of  Roscommon  and 
Galway  Topographical  Collection. 

*'  II.  The  Names  from  Down  Survey,  relating  to  this  county,  are 
found  in  the  Connaught  volume,  which  has  been  already  described  in 
connexion  with  the  county  of  Sligo  records. 

"  III.  The  extracts  (4to,  bound)  relating  to  this  county  will  be  found 
with  those  referring  to  the  county  of  Cavan.  These  have  been  already 
described  in  the  fourth  volume,  new  series,  of  this  '  Journal,'  No.  43, 
January,  1864,  pp.  21,  26. 

"IV.  The  Antiquarian  Letters  (4to,  bound)  relating  to  this  county 
will  be  found  with  those  referring  to  the  county  of  Cavan.  These  have 
been  already  described  in  the  fourth  volume,  new  series,  of  this  '  Journal,' 
No.  43,  January,  1864,  pp.  21,  26. 

**  V.  The  Name  Books  are  51  in  number,  as  the  Catalogue  states.  In 
shape,  size,  and  plan,  they  resemble  others  of  the  series  already  described. 

"  VI.  The  Parish  and  Barony  Name  Book  is  a  small  oblong  4to 
volume  of  21  leaves,  on  each  of  which  Dr.  O'Donovan  has  settled  the 
Irish  orthography  of  several  parishes,  with  Latin  and  English  transla- 
tions. He  has  also  added  various  topographical  notes  of  considerable 
interest.  Postfixed  to  this  MS.  is  a  list  of  authorities  for  baronies  and 
parishes  on  a  large  folded  sheet.  This  list  is  grounded  on  Maps,  Sur- 
veys and  Records  of  various  dates  to  the  year  1832.  Eighteen  authori- 
ties are  enumerated.  The  MS.  was  compiled  in  June,  1836. 

"  VII.  The  Book  of  Memorandums  is  a  thin  4to  bound  volume  of 
only  66  numbered  pages.  It  contains  notes,  observations,  and  map 
traces.  It  has  an  index  of  four  columns  on  two  pages  preceding. 

"  VIII.  The  County  Index  to  Names  on  Maps  is  a  folio  bound  volume 
of  64'leaves,  on  either  side  of  which  are  pasted  slips  of  triple  denomi- 
nations. It  resembles  all  Books  of  this  Series  which  have  been  hitherto 
described. 

"  IX.  On  shelf  2  of  the  Ordnance  Survey  Library  press  will  be 
found  miscellaneous  matter  relating  to  Leitrim  County.  This  tract  is 
called  Statistical  Memoir  of  Union  of  Manorhamilton. 

It  only  remains,  to  close  these  communications  to  the  pages  of  the  'Kil- 
kenny and  south-east  of  Ireland  Archaeological  Society's  Journal.'  The 
descriptive  papers,  furnished  by  the  writer,  were  intended  to  give  some 
idea  regarding  the  valuable  matter  already  prepared  by  the  Irish  Ord- 
nance Survey  Department,  and  which  had  been  originally  designed  for 
the  compilation  of  Irish  County  and  Parochial  Histories.  Every  true 
lover  of  our  country  must  lament  this  design  having  been  placed  in 
abeyance,  since  the  period  of  their  collection  and  to  the  present  time. 
The  absurd  '  penny  wise  and  pound  foolish'  policy  of  every  Government, 
called  to  sway  the  destinies  of  our  Island,  is  completely  pourtrayed,  in 
leaving  these  valuable  MS.  materials  unused  for  purposes  of  publication. 
Probably  several  hundreds  of  thousands  have  been  expended  in  collecting 
scientific  information  for  the  Irish  Ordnance  Survey.  With  the  excep- 


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tion  of  issuing  a  most  valuable  series  of  accurate  maps,  nothing  more  has 
been  done.  To  illustrate  these  maps  in  a  proper  manner,  suitable  scien- 
tific and  local  Memoir  Papers  must  be  required.  A  few  thousands  of 
pounds  would  effect  this  object;  more  especially,  as  the  matter  for  it  has 
been  already  collected,  classified  and  arranged.  The  Ordnance  Survey 
Memoir  for  the  Parish  of  Templemore  is  a  fair  specimen  of  what  the  dom- 
pleted  work  might  be  made.  The  sale  of  such  Memoirs  must  fully  defray 
the  cost  of  publication,  within  a  few  years,  and  without  any  considerable 
money  loss  to  the  public  exchequer.  With  a  cherished  hope  of  something 
being  yet  done  in  this  way,  the  writer  may  assert,  that  he  has  endea- 
voured to  present  a  complete  and  consecutive  Catalogue,  describing  those 
valuable  MSS.,  ancient  maps,  and  antiquarian  sketches.  His  humble 
efforts  may  attract  the  attention  of  more  learned  literary  labourers  to 
them.  Changes  have  occurred  since  he  first  commenced  this  task,  and 
which  render  the  most  interesting  of  these  records  accessible  to  the  read- 
ing public.  Not  originally  intending  to  follow  this  system  of  communi- 
cation to  its  natural  sequence  and  conclusion,  it  may  be  stated,  the  eru- 
dite and  accomplished  Hon.  Sec.,  Rev.  James  Graves,  expressed  a  desire 
that  a  work  thus  casually  commenced  should  be  completed.  If  it 
abound  in  errors  of  plan  and  execution — as  the  writer  will  readily  admit 
it  does — the  Members  of  our  Society  must  accept,  as  his  partial  excuse, 
the  application  only  of  occasional  intervals,  with  more  urgent  duties  often 
supervening,  and  inconvenient  distances  interposed  ;  these  combined 
causes  served  very  much  to  prevent  anything  like  a  perfect  unity  in 
design,  and  delayed,  to  the  present  number,  this  closing  Paper  of  a  some- 
what lengthened  series. 

The  following  papers  were  submitted  to  the  Members : — 


AN  INQUIRY  INTO  THE  ORIGIN  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF 
ARCHER  IN  KILKENNY,  WITH  NOTICES  OF  OTHER 
FAMILIES  OF  THE  NAME  IN  IRELAND. 

BY    J.    H.    LAWRENCE-ARCHER,    CAPTAIN. 

IN  certain  popular  heraldic  works  the  crest  assigned  to  the  sur- 
name "Archer,"  in  Ireland,  is  "  a  mound  azure  banded  and 
crossed  or,"  whereas  there  is  no  instance  of  the  Archers  of  Kil- 
kenny—probably the  earliest  of  the  name  settled  in  this  island- 
ever  having  borne  any  crest  whatever ;  and  in  this  respect  their 
sculptured  coats  of  arms,  throughout  that  city,  form  a  solitary 
heraldic  exception.  Even  on  an  armorial  "  Archer"  seal,  attached 
to  the  will  of  an  Archer  who  lived  in  the  seventeenth  century, 
although  the  shield  is  surmounted  by  a  helmet,  there  is  no  crest, 
and  the  rotundity  and  high  relief  of  the  helmet  may  have  been 
mistaken  for  an  orb.  Be  this  as  it  may,  on  another  armorial  seal, 


Seals  attached  to  Various  Charters  of  the  Archers  of  Tauwurth  (Umbersiade) 

from  the  last  Earl  of  PlymouthsMuuiments. 
See  M.S.  add1?  to  Dugdales  Warwicksliire  ill  the  British  Museum. 


•„•:: 


Seals  of  XorfoiL  &  Suffoll^Xrcliers  (14  CentT) 

(22.3.4.5.) 


ForaUrtC0  Dublin 


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of  the  same  period,  although  there  13  a  crest,  it  is  doubtful  whether 
the  seal  bears  the  arms  of  Archer,  notwithstanding  that  the  estoiles, 
or  mullets,  found  in  the  Archer  coat,  on  monuments  in  this  city, 
are  conspicuous  on  this  escutcheon,  and  form  the  crest. 

Two  questions  at  once  present  themselves — 1st,  How  came  the 
Kilkenny  Archers  not  to  have  a  crest  ?  2nd,  What  could  have 
been  the  origin  of  the  crest,  imputed  to  them  by  Fairbairn  and 
others  ? 

Now,  with  reference  to  the  latter,  it  seems  to  me  that  la  monde 
or  may  have  been  adopted,  by  some  Archer  in  the  seventeenth 
or  eighteenth  century,  as  a  canting  heraldic  memento  of  a  civic 
connexion  with  the  great  feudal  family  of  Ormonde,  whose  for- 
tunes have  been  so  intimately  associated  with  the  city  of  Kil- 
kenny, and  where,  from  the  year  1345  to  1652,  no  fewer  than 
sixty-five  times  does  the  name  of  Archer  appear  in  the  Magistracy, 
as  Portreves,  Sovereigns,  Mayors,  Sheriffs,  and  Coroners,  &c. ; 
while  on  the  other  hand  the  Great  Duke  of  Ormonde  was  chiefly 
instrumental  in  obtaining  for  the  people  of  Kilkenny  the  restoration 
of  their  property,  which  had  been  seized  by  Cromwell's  followers. 

In  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  centuries,  the  great  merchants 
were  probably  more  frequently  members  of  the  aristocracy,  than  at 
the  present  day.  Few,  but  such,  could  acquire  the  capital  necessary 
for  embarking  in  commercial  enterprise,  and  in  Italy  and  Flanders, 
&c.,  the  chief  merchants  became  the  rulers  of  cities,  and  eventually 
hereditary  princes  ;  therefore  the  position  held  at  an  early  period, 
by  the  Archers  of  Kilkenny,  was  not  incompatible  with  a  noble  or 
knightly  origin,  but  rather  the  contrary,  as  J  hope  to  be  able  to 
show  more  clearly  in  the  following  notes. 

But  to  return — the  absence  of  a  family  crest  may  fairly  be  at- 
tributed to  the  Kilkenny  Archers  having  separated  from  the  parent 
tree  in  England,  before  the  period  when  crests  became  common;  and 
it  is  worthy  of  note,  that  the  three  pheons  borne  by  the  Kilkenny 
Archers  were  the  actual  coat  of  the  family  of  le  Archer  of  War- 
wickshire before  the  time  of  Thomas  le  Archer,  second  son  of  John 
le  Archer  of  Tanworth  (Umberslade),  who  was  the  first  of  his 
family  to  use  the  three  broad  arrows,  and  to  assume  a  crest.  "  He 
(Thomas  le  Archer)  was  Grand  Prior  of  the  Knights  of  St.  John 
of  Jerusalem,  in  England,  and  as  such  was  reckoned  the  first 
Baron  in  the  realm."1  His  seal  is  well  known,  and  is  an  example, 
at  the  early  period  of  the  reign  of  Edward  II.,  of  the  adoption  of 
supporters.  To  a  document  bearing  date  the  fourteenth  year  of 
this  monarch's  reign,  Thomas  le  Archer,  Grand  Prior,  appears  as 
party  on  the  one  part,  and  on  the  other,  his  relatives,  John  le  Archer* 

•Jacob's   Peerage,  and  "History  of  'This  John  was  possibly  the  Grand 

the  Hospitallers  in  England."  Prior  in  Ireland. 

2  G 


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and  Thomas  le  Archer  ;  while  the  seal  of  Nicholas  le  Archer  shows 
another  variation  of  the  same  arms,  viz.,  pheons,  not  arrows. 

In  all  the  printed  pedigrees  of  the  Archers  of  Umberslade,  and 
even  in  that  which  is  preserved  in  the  Heralds'  College,  many 
younger  sons'  names  are  omitted ;  but  this  defect  is  remedied  in  a 
copy  of  Dugdale's  "  Warwickshire,"  to  be  seen  at  the  British 
Museum,  where  the  annotator  has  carefully  transcribed  the  ancient 
charters  of  this  family,  and  given  drawings  of  the  seals  attached  to 
them,  with  other  curious  additions.  Happening  myself  to  possess 
the  original  holograph  list  of  his  family,  charters,  &c.,  made  by 
Sir  Simon  Archer,  I  could  verify  those  given  by  the  annotator  in 
question.  Sir  Simon,  however,  had  not  very  carefully  extracted 
all  the  names  of  collateral  ancestors  for  his  friend  Dugdale ;  and 
amongst  others  omitted,  in  all  the  printed  pedigrees,  is  that  of  the 
above  Nicholas  le  Archer,  and  also  of  another  Nicholas  le  Archer, 
whose  seal,  attached  to  a  grant  of  free  warren,  in  the  fourteenth 
century,  bears  the  quaint  device  of  a  hare  walking  on  its  hind  legs, 
a  dead  dog  dangling  to  a  stick  over  its  shoulder,  with  the  ad- 
ditional letters  "  c  h  e  r" — i.  e.  Hare  cher  ! 

Now,  in  Rymer's  "Fcedera"  will  be  found  a  notice  of  John 
le  Archer,  Grand  Prior  (also  in  the  reign  of  Edward  II.,  and  con- 
sequently contemporaneously  with  Thomas  le  Archer  of  Tanworth 
in  England)  of  the  Knights  Hospitallers  in  Ireland.  In  the  year 
1341,  while  Grand  Prior,  he  offered  to  prove  his  right  to  the  church 
of  Dunboyne  "  by  his  champion."  His  rank  socially  must  have 
been  considerable,  for  "none  were  admitted  into  the  rank  of 
Knights,  but  such  as  had  previously  distinguished  themselves,  or 
who  were  at  least  descended  from  ancient  knights."1 

"  This  Prior"  (le  Archer),  continues  the  same  author,  "  was 
entrusted  with  a  commission  to  Edward  III.  from  a  Parliament 
held  in  Kilkenny,  praying  that  several  grievances  might  be  re- 
dressed ....  for  the  English  either  ruled  with  a  rod  of 
iron  ...  (or  had)  become  more  Irish  than  the  Irish  them- 
selves."2 

In  1345,  Walter  Archer  was  Portreve  of  Kilkenny,  as  was 
also  John  Archer;  and  in  1350  Adam  Archer  was  Portreve.  It 
is  exceedingly  probable  that  a  clue  to  the  origin  of  these  three,  if 
not  indeed  a  direct  proof  of  their  parentage,  would  be  found  in  the 
Mb.  additions  to  Dugdale  just  mentioned,  especially  as  I  do  not 

unk  that  any  but  the  one  family  of  Le  Archer,  descended  from 
the  tutor  of  King  Henry  I.,  bore  the  surname  of  Archer,  until 

enry  V.  conferred  it  on  Simon  de  Bois,  of  Essex.  This  is  con- 
trary to  what  would  naturally  be  supposed— namely,  that  the 

>  Burton's  "History  of  Kilmainham."  cord   that,  in    1373    Thomas    Archer, 

the  F«TfSn     B°illler'  a  >8e  so»  °f  of  Umberslade,  while  foraging  in  France, 

n  Irol  J  ,°rmo"de'  ™s  Grand  Prior  one  day,  with  Robert  Botelerwd  others, 

reland  temp.  Hen.  V.     It  is  on  re-  was  made  prisoner 


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patronymic  was  common  when  the  profession  of  an  archer  was 
in  repute ;  but  that  the  contrary  was  the  case,  I  am  inclined  to 
believe,  there  can  be  little  doubt;  and  a  paper  on  this  question 
will  be  found  in  •*  The  Herald  and  Genealogist."1  Nicholas 
le  Archer,  it  is  there  shown,  had  the  privilege  of  carrying  the 
King's  own  bow,  through  all  the  forests  of  England,  and  was,  par 
excellence,  "  le  Archer,"  a  surname  entirely  monopolized  by  this 
family,  until  the  profession  of  archery  decayed,  and  Henry  VII I. 
created  a  professional  archer  burlesque  Duke  of  Shoreditch  ! 

It  has  occurred  to  me  as  neither  impossible,  nor  improbable,  that 
the  Archer  family  of  Kilkenny  came  to  Ireland  in  the  immediate 
following  of  "  Strongbow";  and  may  even  have  been  connected 
with  that  noble  by  ties  of  kindred ;  for  in  the  church  of  St.  Bu- 
rian,  Cornwall,  there  is  an  old  armorial  sculpture  of  the  now  ex- 
tinct family  ofLevelis,  quartering  "  Clare"2  and  "Archer"  in  succes- 
sion, the  latter  quartering  being  also  that  of  the  earliest  Kilkenny 
Archers  (sab.  3  pheons  argt.),  and  of  John  le  Archer,  of  Tan- 
worth,  father  of  Thomas,  the  Grand  Prior  of  the  Hospitallers,  but 
with  the  difference  of  a  chevron  engrailed  argent,  which  may  be 
thus  accounted  for : — 

John  le  Archer,  of  Tanworth,  Co.  Warwick,  and  champion  to 
Thomas  Earl  of  Warwick,  married  the  daughter3  of  William  de 
Barneville  (a  name  conspicuous  in  the  Norman  annals  of  Ireland, 
and  particularly  in  the  peerage  of  Trimleston),  and  bore  for  his 
arms — sab.  3  pheons  argt. 

This  John  died  in  the  35th  of  Henry  III.,  leaving  several  sons 
(elsewhere  accounted  for);  and  Nicholas  le  Archer,  either  his  son 
or  brother,  held  possessions  at  Stoke,  in  Clare,  Gloucestershire,  in 
the  15th  Edw.  I.,  by  providing  a  man  with  bow  and  arrows,4  to 
attend  the  King's  army  when  it  marched  against  the  Welsh. 

In  the  7th  Edw.  II.,  Edmond  le  Archer  held  these  lands  in 
Clare  (partly,  at  any  rate)  of  Gilbert  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester  and 
Hertford  :  they  were  contiguous  to  those  of  the  Berkeley  family  ;5 
while  it  is  not  unworthy  of  note,  that  (see  "  Herald  and  Geneal.,"  p. 
22)  David  le  Blund,  of  Bristol,  was  married  to  Amabilia  le  Archer  ; 
and  in  transactions  during  the  reigns  of  Henry  III.  and  Edwd.  I., 
these  persons'  names  are  recorded  along  with  that  of  John,  "filii 
Mauricii  de  Salso  Morisco,''  all  of  the  County  Gloucester. 

Possibly,  before  the  extinction  of  the  male  line  (or  at  any  rate  of 
the  senior  family)  of  le  Archer  of  Stoke,  in  Clare,  by  the  marriage 
of  its  heiress  with  William  de  Berkeley  of  Coberly6  (as  appears 
by  an  Inquis.  P.  M.  of  the  24th  Edw.  III.,  in  which  it  is  stated,  that 
"  Gilbert  le  Archer,  seised  of  Archerstok,  in  the  County  of  Glou- 

1  No.  XII.,  1865.  4  Rudder's  "  Gloucestershire  " 

2  This  quartering  has  been  disputed.  5  See  the  Arms  of  Clare  and  Berkeley 

3  Or,  ". Christina  secunda,  nuper  Will'  in  Bristol  Cathedral, 
de  Barneville. "  fi  Near  Cheltenham. 


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cester,  held  of  the  King  in  capite,  by  supplying  him  with  a  eheaf 
of  arrows  in  war  time,  forever"— that  "  he  died  on  the  8th  October; 
and  that  "  Joanna,  the  wife  of  Thomas  de  Berkeley  de  Coberly, 
is  his  daughter  and  heir,  and  is  aged  24  years  and  upwards"),  an 
uncle,  or  brother,  of  the  original  Nicholas  le  Archer,  accompanied 
the  relatives  of  his  mother  or  kinswoman,  Christian  de  Barneville, 
to  Ireland,  taking  with  him  the  pure  paternal  coat ;  or  the  Kil- 
kenny family  may  have  only  adopted  the  latter,  on  the  death  of 
Gilbert  le  Archer,  in  the  reign  of  Edwd.  III.,  having  previously 
used  some  other  coat,  of  which  I  do  not  think  that  any  record  is 
preserved. 

In  the  meantime,  another  branch  of  the  Gloucester  le  Archer 
family,  after  one  of  the  Welsh  expeditions  of  the  Clare  family,1 
probably  settled  in  Cornwall,  and  introduced,  for  a  difference,  the 
chevro7i,  engrailed  argt.  while  it  is  highly  probable  that  the  family  of 
Levelis,  in  that  county,  was  of  similar  origin — a  supposition  which 
has  acquired  weight,  by  the  suggestion  of  an  excellent  authority  on 
the  point,  that  "  Levelis"  was  simply  "  Le  Walleys,"  "  Le  Vallis," 
"  Wallis,"  "  Walsh," — the  Welshman,  as  he  was  likely  to  have 
been  named  in  his  new  locality. 

This  connexion  between  Archer  and  Clare  in  Gloucester — 
between  Clare,2  Archer,  and  Levelis,  in  Cornwall,3  and  finally 
between  '*  Strongbow,"  Barneville,  Walsh,  and  Archer,  in  Ireland, 
is  very  suggestive,  on  more  than  one  point. 

On  the  extinction  of  the  chief  male  line  of  Archer,  in  Kilkenny, 
(by  the  marriage  of  its  heiress,  Eose  Archer,  with  Kichard  Shee, 
and  the  consequent  transfer  of  her  arms  to  the  escutcheon  of  the 
latter),  it  would  be  curious  to  ascertain,  whether  the  other,  and 
junior  family  of  Archer,  did  not  then,  for  the  first  time,  assume  a 
coat  armorial,  selecting  for  their  purpose  that  of  their  kinsmen,  the 
Walshes  of  Castle  Hoel,  by  reversing  the  three  pheons  of  the  latter. 

Possibly,  however,  that  of  Walsh  itself  was  a  coat  manufactured, 
so  to  speak,  originally,  during  one  of  the  Welsh  expeditions,  out  of 
the  sable,  three  pheons  argt.  of  the  Gloucestershire  Archers  (of 
which  family  the  original  Walsh,  was  perhaps,  a  not  fully  recognised 
member),  with  the  augmentation  of  the  chevron  gules  of  Clare; 
but,  inasmuch  as  the  latter  would  have  been  "  colour  upon  colour,  " 
the  former  were  exactly  reversed  in  every  particular.  If  this 
suggestion  be  worth  anything,  then  the  presumption  is,  that  the 
junior  Archers  of  Kilkenny  resumed,  to  a  certain  extent,  their 
own  coat,  which  might  well  have  been  qualified  by  such  a  motto 
as  that  borne  by  the  present  noble  family  of  Warwick. 

i  Gilbert  dc  Clare  was  granted  to  en-  argt.  (query ,  "  Langton,"  of  Kilkenny), 

joy  all  that  he  might  conquer  in  Wales  and  not  that  of  "  Clare,"  as  stated  by 

i  am  informed  that  this  coat  is  that  one  of  the  historians  of  Cornwall, 

frenco,'   viz.,  sable  3  chevronels  3  See  note  on  Walsh,  infra. 


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On  the  other  hand,  the  question  at  once  presents  itself,  was  not 
the  coat  of  Walsh  of  Castle  Hoel  a  coat  armorial  taken  from  the  real 
one,  of  the  first  Irish  Archer,  under  Strongbow,  before  the  family 
assumed  the  pure  coat,  in  the  14th  century,  as  before  suggested  ? 

Be  this  as  may,  it  is  quite  certain  that  much  confusion  existed 
in  Norman  Irish  heraldry,  in  the  feudal  ages  ;  and  a  notable  in- 
stance is  to  be  found,  in  that  of  the  family  of  O'Shee  of  Garden 
Morris,  three  of  whose  four  first  quarterings  are  inverted,  and  are 
not  O'Shee  at  all,  but  simply  Archer  reversed,  with  its  quarter- 
ings  of  Bermingham,  Walsh,  Purcell,  &c. — an  error,  strange  to  say, 
that  has  escaped  notice  up  to  the  present  time. 

With  regard  to  other  families  of  Archer  in  Ireland,  there  are 
strong  reasons  for  believing,  that  the  Archers  of  Wicklow  originated 
in  the  Suffolk  branch  of  the  Warwickshire  family ;  and  that  they  are, 
if  so,  probably  akin  to  that  of  Kilkenny ;  while  by  their  connexion 
with  the  family  of  Archer  in  Wexford,  they  probably  have  engrafted 
the  Essex  family  of  De  Boys  alias  Archer.  The  Archers  of  Belfast, 
on  the  other  hand,  came  from  Berwickshire,  and  are  akin  to  the 
Archers  of  Cupar  Angus,  whose  ancestors  appear  to  have  been 
related  by  marriage,  to  the  family  of  the  "Admirable  Crichton," 
inasmuch  as  Elspeth  Archer  was  spouse  to  John  Crichton  in  the 
Hill  of  Strathworde  (Will,  10th  July  1601).  In  conclusion  it 
may  be  observed  that  this  surname  is  exceedingly  rare,  as  it  always 
has  been,  in  Scotland. 

I  do  not  presume  to  put  forward  these  suggestions,  and  ideas, 
dogmatically,  on  so  remote  and  obscure  a  subject,  but  merely 
scatter  them  as  arrows,  to  be  used  again  by  other  hands,  or  cast 
aside,  if  pointless. 

In  conclusion,  the  foregoing  evidence  may  be  thus  briefly  sum- 
marized : — 

1st.  That  the  family  of  Archer  in  Ireland  came  over  with 
Strongbow. 

2nd.  That  at  that  period,  and  until  temp.  Hen.  V.,  there 
was  but  one  family  called  le  Archer  in  England,  all  others  being 
only  branches  of  that  one. 

3rd.  That  the  Archers  of  Stoke  Archer,  in  Clare,  held  their 
lands  from  the  time  of  Henry  III.  in  Gloucester,  partly  under  the 
Clares,  and  partly  "  in  capite" 

4th.  That  Nicholas  le  Archer  of  Archerstoke,  Gloucester, 
accompanied  Strongbow's  father  in  his  expedition  against  the 
Welsh,  and  that  the  two  families  were  in  connexion  feudally,  with 
each  other,  from  the  earliest  period. 

5th.  That  while  Thomas  le  Archer  of  Tanworth  was  Grand 
prior  of  the  Hospitallers  in  England,  John  le  Archer  was  Grand 
Prior  in  Ireland,  and  was  in  Kilkenny  at  the  sitting  of  the  famous 
Parliament  there. 


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6th.  That  the  first  coat  armorial  borne  by  the  le  Archers  in 
Ireland,  was  sable  3  pheons  arg.  :  and  that  this  was  the  coat  of 
the  Gloucester  family,  derived  from  the  Warwickshire,  before  the 
latter  had  acquired  "  Azure  3  arrows  or." 

7th.  That  after  the  Archers  of  Gloucester  cease  to  be  noticed 
in  that  county,  other  (?)  Archers,  with  the  same  baptismal  names, 
appear  in  Ireland. 

8th.  That  the  original  Irish  Archer  coat  passed  by  an  heiress  to 
the  Shees,  while  the  other  branches  adopted  variations  on  those  of 
Strongbow,  and  that  there  is  evidence,  that  the  Gloucester  and 
Irish  Archers  were  related  to  the  Barneville  family,  a  daughter  of 
which  married  John  le  Archer  of  Tanworth.  The  Barnevilles 
followed  Strongbow's  father  into  Wales,  and  the  Tanworth  and 
Clare  Archers  were  identical. 

PROOFS   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Portreves,  Sovereigns,  Mayors,  Sheriffs,  Coroners,  $c.,  of  the  City  of  Kilkenny, 
named  Archer,  from  1345  to  1652. 


COMMUNICATED   BY    MR.   J.    G.   A.    PRIM. 


1345  Walter  Archer,    ....  P. 

John  Archer,        ....  P. 

1350  Adam  Archer,      ....  P. 

1356  David  Archer,     ....  S. 

1366  David  Archer      ....  S. 

1376  David  Archer,     ....  S. 

1377  David  Archer,      ....  S. 
1390  Walter  Archer,    ....  P. 
1399  William  Archer  Fitz  Walter,  P. 
1425  William  Archer,  ....  S. 
1434  William  Archer,        ...  S. 
1447  Elias  Archer,       ....  S. 
1464  William  Archer,        ...  S. 

1466  William  Fitz  Elias  Archer,  .  S. 

1467  Walter  Archer,    ....  S. 

1468  Walter  Archer,   ....  S. 
1498  Peter  Archer,      ....  S. 

1498  John  Archer,       ....  P. 

1499  John  Archer,       ....  S. 
1503  Patrick  Archer,  ....  S. 
1508  Patrick  Archer,  ....  S. 
1518  Patrick  Archer,  ....  S. 

1520  Peter  Archer,       ....  S. 

1521  Peter  Archer,      ....  S. 
1528  Walter  Archer,  Fitz  John,   .  P. 
1542  Walter  Archer,    .                 .  S. 
1544  Walter  Archer,    .                 .  S. 
1568  Walter  Archer,                     .  S. 
1572  Thomas  Archer,  .                 .  S. 
1574  Laurence  Archer,                 .  S. 
1588  Thomas  Archer,                    .  S. 
1690  Walter  Archer,    .                 .  S. 
1693  John  Archer,  Fitz  W  Hiam,  .  S. 
1597  Thomas  Archer,  .                 .  S. 
1601  Patrick  Archer,  .                 .  S. 
1603  Martin  Archer,    .  S. 


1611  Thomas  Archer,  .      .      .      . 
1611  Patrick  Archer,  Thomas] 
being  removed,     .      .      ) 

1611  John  Archer,       .      .      .      . 

1612  Edmond  Archer,  .      .      .      . 

1613  Edmond  Archer,  .      .      .      . 
1613  Edmond  Archer,  .... 

1615  Edmond  Archer,  . 

1616  Michael  Archer,  .... 

1616  Edward  Archer,  .      .      .     '. 

1617  Andrew  Archer,  .... 
1621  Walter  Archer,    .      .      .      . 
1625  Walter  Archer,    .      .      .      . 
1625  David  Archer,     .... 

1627  Walter  Archer,    .... 

1628  Henry  Archer,     .... 

1634  Thomas  Archer,  .... 

1635  Peter  Archer,       .      .      .      . 

1636  James  Archer,     .... 

1638  John  Archer,       .... 

1639  Michael  Archer,  .... 

1640  Nicholas  Archer,        .      .      . 

1641  Thomas  Archer,         .      .      . 
1643  Walter  Archer,          .      .      . 
1646  Peter  Archer,  Fitz  Nicholas,  . 
1648  Thomas  Archer,  Fitz  Edward, 
1652  Luke  Archer,       .... 


Portreves  of  Irishtown. 

1548  William  Archer,  Fitz  Peter. 
1586  James  Archer,  Fitz  Patrick. 
1610  Robert  Archer,  Fitz  Richard. 
1620  Nicholas  Archer. 


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Charter  0/1608. 

1608  William  Archer,  Alderman. 
James  Archer,  Merchant,  Burgess. 

Charter  0/1609. 

1609  Thomas  Archer, 

Patrick  Archer,    }-  Aldermen. 
Walter  Archer, 


Thomas  Archer, 
Patrick  Archer, 
Walter  Archer, 
John  Archer, 


Martin  Archer,  Merchants 

John  Archer  Fitz  Laurence 
Edward  Archer, 
Andrew  Archer, 


Society  of 


CALENDAR.  INQTJISITIONUM  HIBERNLE  IN  OFFICIO  KOTULORUM 
CANCELLARIAE,  VOL.  i. 

Carlow. 

Walter  Archer. — 18  Oct'  an'  2  Carl'  I.  seis'  fuit  de  medietat'  rector' 
p'sonag'  &c.,  de  Tullephelim,  Kilkraughage,  &  Rathvill,  &  p  script'  suu 
dat'  22  Mar'  1613  feoffavit  Rob'  Archer  Fitz  Walter'  de  civit'  Kilk' 
&  Therlaghe  Fitz  Thomas  Loghlin  de  Downemore  in  Co'  Kilk'  her'  & 
assign'  suos  de  p'mss'  ad'us'  ult'  volunt'  p'd'  Walter'  cujus  scripti  tenor 
sequit'  in  orig':  p'd'  Walter  condiditsua  ult'  voluntat'  18  JuP  1619  & 
habuit  tempore  mortis  preter  Hen'  Archer  fil'  &  her'  ejus,  Tho',  Jac', 
Joh'  &  Patric'  Archer  et  un'  filiam  Catherin'  que  unmaritata  fuit. 

Kilkenny. 

John  Archer. — 8  Mar'  1618;  (21  Jac  I.)  nuperde  Corbetstoune,  in  Co* 
Kilken'  defunct'  seis'  fuit  die  quo  obiit  ut  de  feod'  devil'  &  ten' de 
Mothell  al'  Mohill  &  Inchebryde  .  .  .  et  de  Ballyrancke  .  .  .  et  ea 
tenuit  de  dno  Dingwall  et  Eliz'  ux'  s  ut  de  maner'  de  Downemore  in 
soccag',  mediet'  .  .  .  vil'  ter'  .  .  .  de  John  Rothestowne  &  Rathmo- 
nane  .  .  .  et  ea  tenuint  de  Edm'  Purcell  ut  de  maner'  de  Drom- 

herch   al'    Dromerrin  in  soccag' 

p'd'  Joh'  Archer  est  fil'  &  her'  diet'  Joh'  & 

fuit  etat'  40  annor'  et  maritat',  Ellinor  Cantwell  ux'  sua. 

John  Archer. — (46  Jac  I.  1624)  seis  fuit  &c.  de  Rector'  de  Mothell  &c., 
&c.,  per  chart'  gereut'  dat'  15  Oct'  1588,  ded'  Walter'  Lawles 

de   Kilken'    &   Jac'   Archer  Fitz de  eade  mercator'  vil'   de 

Lisclevan,  &c.,  &c.,  p'd'  Joh'  Archer  p  chart'  sua  dedit  p'fat'  Joh' 
Archer,  &c.,  &c. 

Walter  Archer.— (Kilk.  10  Oct.,  1625,  5  Carl.  I.)  nup'  de  Nova  Ross  in 
Co'  Wexford'  &  Tho'  Purcell  de  Garryduffe  in  Co'  Kilken'  seis'  fuer' 
de  maner'  &c  Mucckully  in  Co'  Kilken'  William's  towne  &  Bally- 
lonane,  &c.,  sic  seis'  pd'  Edm'  Tho'  &  Walter'  p'  chart'  dat'  24  April' 
1613,  p  sum'  300J.  deder'  Wil'  Den  &c.,  &c.  (many  more  lands  men- 
tioned'] p'd'  Walter'  Archer  &  Edm'  Purcell  p  fact'  dat'  2  Mail  1623 
in  consideracon'  501  g  Wil'  Shee  solut'  &c.  Obiit  16  Aug'  1625. 

Walter  Archer (Kilk.  19  Apl.  1626,  8  Carl.  I)  senior  de  Kilken'  defunct' 

seis'  fuit  de  maner'   castr'  vil'  et  ter'  de  Brickinclaraghe  &c.,  &c., 
.    .  p'd'  Walter'  Archer  sic  seis'  p  fact'  suu  geren'  dat'  1  Dec'  an'  reg' 


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nup'  Reg'  Eliz'  30  &  A.D.  1587  feoffavit  Ric'  Sedgraue  .  .  . 
Patric'  Talbott  de  Malahide,  &c.  &c.  ad  us'  ult'  voluntat'  p'd'  Walter' 
Archer  prout  p  p'd'  fact*  apparet  .  .  Ide  Walter  Archer  condidit 
ult'  volunt'  sua  dat'  24  Mali  an'  reg'  Jac'  nup'  Reg'  2,  et  devisavit  inter 
aP  Eliz.'  Bermingha  ux'  pd'  Walter'  durant'  viduetat'  et  postea  ad  us' 
Walter*  Archer  junior'  .  .  remaner'  inde  Hen'  Archer  fiT  pd'  Wal- 
ter'junior',  remaner'  unppet'  Beale  Archer  &  Mar'  Archer  filiabus 
pd'  Walter'  senior':  p'd'  Walter'  Archer  senior  obiit  10  Maii  1606. 
Ffat'  Walter'  junior  fuit  fil'  et  her'  p'd'  Walter'  senior'  et  fuit  plen' 
etat'  temp'  mortis  p'tris  sui  et  maritat'  Eliz'  Archer  aP  Shee.  Wal- 
ter' Archer  junior  obiit  4  Jan'  1625.  Hen'  Archer  est  fil'  et  her'  et 
tune  fuit  plen'  etat'  et  maritat'  &c.,  &c.,  &c. 

Joh'  Archer  Fitz  Walter'  (22  Sep.  1636.  Carl  I.)  nup'  de  Corbettstowne 
in  Co'  Kilken'  in  vita  sua  seis'  fuit'  de  Rector'  de  Mothill,  &c.  obiit  16 
Oct'  1617.  Walter  Archer  est  ejus.fil'  &  her'  etat'  40  an'  &  maritat': 
p'miss'  tenebant'  de  fte  in  Soccag'  in  Capite. 

Oliver  Grace  (6  Oct.  1618)  de  Kilrindowney,  &c.,  &c.  p  script'  gerent'  dat' 
14  Maii  1611  feoffav'  Helia  Archer  of  Bowlincomyn  de  viF  &  ter' 
de  Rossnenewle. 

Hen'  Comerford  (13  Jan.  1618)  de  Ballymaca  &c.  p'd'  WiP  [Crains- 
borogh]  sic  seis'  existen'  p  fact'  suu  geren'  dat'  28  Nov'  1590  demisit 
p'mss  cuida  Tho'  Archer  Fitz- Walter  de  Civit'  Kilken'  Alderman' 
nup'  defunct'  ad  term'  66  annor'  &c.  p'  Tho'  Archer  fuit  seis'  de  25 
acr,  &c.,  in  Erlestoune,  &c.  &c.  p'd'  Tho'  Archer  feoffavit  de  p'mss' 
quosda  WiP  Crainsbrough,  Philip  Crainsbrough  &  Edm'  Archer  p 
fact'  dat'  2  Oct  1595  &c.  p'd'  Tho'  Archer  Fitz- Walter  obiit  14  Jan' 
1617-^Johanna,  Leticia  Margaret'  Katherin'  &  Ros'  Archer  sunt 
filie  et  cohered'  ejus  et  fuer'  plen'  etat'  temp'  mortis  [the  four  first 
were  married  before  their  father* s  death']. 

Ric.'  Shee  Mil'  (17  Apl.  1623).  Tho'  Archer  Fitz-Patrick  de  Kilken' 
.  .  .  Joh'  Archer  Fitz-Lawrence. 

Oliver  Waton  (21  Oct  1624)  .  .  p  script'  gerent'  dat'  10  Aug.  1615 
dimisit  quibusda  Joh'  Archer  Fitz-Laurence  et  Nich'  Archdekin  &c. 

Joh1  Cantwell  (6  Sep.  1637)  de  Cantwell's  Courte,  &c.  &c.  alienavit  p'miss' 
p'd'  Tho  Archer  de  Kilken'  alderman'  .  .  .  temp'  reg'  nup' 
Reg'  Jac'  alienar'  Mich'  Archer  &  Tho'  Archer. 

Joh'  Grace  de  Courtestowne  p  chart'  sua  gerent'  dat  28  Dec'  1590 
feoffavit  quosda,  Ric'  Shee  mil,'  Helia  Shee,  Tho'  Archer  .  .  . 
Patric'  Archer,  &c. 

Patric'  Archer  (10  April  1634)  nup'  de  Civit'  Kilken'  in  vita  sua  seis'  fuit 
de  Killnowling  aP  Kilbally howling  ....  et  sic  seis'  p  fact'  suu  dat' 
temp'  Reg'  Jac'  alien'  Marc'  Shee  de  Kilken'. 

Joh'  Cantwell  (6  Sep.  1637).  It  is  stated  that  Patrick  Archer  died  30 
Dec.,  1609. 

Ric'  Vicecom'  Mount  Garrett  (30  Oct.,  1621.)— Walter  Archer  Fitz- John 
mentioned  as  witness  to  a  deed,  39  Eliz.  19  May. 

Walter  Archer  Fitz- John  is  again  mentioned  in  the  inquisition  of  John 
Archer,  21  Oct.,  1624. 


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Meath. 

Francis'  Archer  (Jac  I,  28  Oct.,  1623.)  de  Dub'  seis'  fuit'  &c.  p'd'  Fran- 
cisc'  Archer  p  fact'  feoff'  dat'  19  Jun.  1614,  concess'  Job'  Gilliott 
de  Sturmenston  in  Co'  Dub'  (p'mss'  tenent'  de  Be'  in  Capite  p  srvic' 
mil'.) 

Wexford. 

Petr'  Butler  deOld  Abbey  (6  Sep.,  1625)  ....  concessit  ....  (1601 
Oct.  6)  Walter'  Archer  de  Kilken',  ....  Joh1  Archer  Fitz- Walter 
de  Kilken'  mercator'  &c. 


WILLS  OF  THE  ARCHER  FAMILY  BECORDED  IN  THE  PROBATE  COURT,  CITY 

OF  KILKENNY. 

(Extracts.) 

1536,  September  20th.  Peter  Archer — This  is  a  will  and  inventory 
"bonorum  Petri  Archer  filii  Willelmi  Archer  Burgensis  villa?  Kilken." 
The  testator  mentions  his  wife,  Ellen  Purcell,  his  sons,  William  and 
Bichard,  his  daughter,  Bose,  and  a  friend,  Nicholas  Hacked. 

1574,  September  1 1th.  Lawrence  Archer,  of  Kilkenny,  mentions  his  son 
and  heir  John,  his  brothers,  Walter,  Patrick,  and  Bichard  Archer; 
his  sister  Catherine  Archer ;  his  daughter  Catherine ;  his  four  married 
daughters ;  his  cousin  John  Archer,  of  Boss  ;  Mathew  Dormer.  He 
forgives  debts  due  to  him  by  his  cousins,  William  Archer  Fitz-John, 
and  Michael  Archer;  his  brother  Walter  Archer,  and  Patrick  Bothe, 
are  also  mentioned.  There  are  the  following  directions  in  the  will, 
"My  body  to  be  buried  in  Or  Lady  Chapell,  in St  Patrick's  Church,  in 

Kilkenny,  towards  my  father under  the  tombe  that 

lyeth  at  the  my  del  of  the  altar.  " 

1602.  January  13th.  Joh  Archer  Fitz-Laurence,  burgess  of  the  city  of 
Kilkenny,  mentions  his  sons,  William  and  Matthew;  his  daughters, 
Margaret  and  Govaee,  to  whom  he  leaves  land  in  fee ;  his  debtors  are 
Thomas  Archer  Fitz-Patrick  ;  John  Both  Fitz-Gerald  ;  Bichard  Both 
Fitz- Walter  ;  Margaret  Archer  Fitz-John  and  Walter  Archer. 

1605,  December  14th.  Megge  Archer  Fitz-Edward,  of  the  city  of  Kil- 
kenny, widow,  mentions  her  son,  Jenken  Both ;  her  daughter,  Megge 
Both;  others,  viz.,  John  Archer  Fitz-Walter  ;  Margaret  Archer  Fitz- 
Edward,  Elizabeth  Cantwell,  and  the  "body  to  be  buried  with  her 
husband  Jenkinge  Both,  in  the  Choire  of  Our  Lady  Chapell,  Kilkenny." 

1617,  February  10th.  Thomas  Archer  Fitz  Walter,  Alderman  of  Kil- 
kenny, directs  that  his  body  be  buried  "  in  St.  James'  Chappie,  in  Our 
Ladie  Church,"  in  the  arch  where  his  "  brother,  Piers  Archer  was 
buried,"  mentions  his  wife  Margaret  Crainsbrugh  (Knaresborough)  ; 
his  son-in-law,  Patrick  Archer  and  his  wife  Johana,  the  testa  tor's  daugh- 
ter; his  son-in-law,  Edmond  Archer,  the  husband  of  his  daughter,  Ann 

2  H 


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Archer;  his  other  daughters,  Margarest,  Lettice,  Catheren,  and  Rose; 
his  brother  Mr.  Walter  Archer,  of  Catherlagh  (Carlow) ;  his  nephew 
Walter  Archer. 

1 G62,  November  29th.  James  Archer,  of  Freshford,  Kilkenny,  gent, 
mentions  his  lands,  leases,  &c.;  his  eldest  son,  John  Archer;  his  wife 
Isma  Archer,  alias  Browne;  his  brother  Peter;  his  late  "unckle," 
Walter  Archer;  his  daughters;  u  hereditaments  and  lands  formerly 
in  possession  of  my  ancestors."  Witnesses,  Redmond  Russell,  Daniel 
Egan,  John  Murphy. 

1681.  January  4th.— Luke  Archer,  of  the  City  of  Kilkenny,  "  preist" — 
mentions  as  his  executor  his  brother,  Richard  Archer,  and  leaves  to 

his  nephew,  Marcus  Stafford,  all  that  belongs  to 

*'  ye  clergy"  (imperfect). 

1722.  Nov.  7th Martin  Archer,  priest,  of  the  City  of  Kilkenny — 

appoints  Michael  Archer,  merch*,  of  Kilkenny,  executor — Bequeaths 
rents  of  certain  property  to  the  Romish  Church — Failing  the  said 
execr,  the  following  are  named  to  succeed  as  execrs,  viz.,  James  Archer, 
and  his  three  sons,  1,  Nicholas;  2,  William;  3,  "Michaell." 

1729.  May  13th. — Martin  Archer,  of  the  City  of  Kilkenny — mentions 
his  wife  Margaret  Archer  als.  Langton — His  daur  Margery,  m:  to 
"Nicholas  Shee,  of  this  City" — his  unm:  daur  Margaret,  to  whom  he 
bequeaths  "  the  bulk  of  my  fortune" — Bequests  to  "  poor  Ralph 
Lawrence,"  and  his  barber,  Tho8  Daniel — to  his  brother  Ralph  Archer 
— his  cousin  Peter  Archer — Mr.  Gregory  Wall — mentions  his  silver 
tankard,  &c. — Witness,  Pat.  S*  Leger. 

Attached  to  the  four  first  of  the  above  wills  are  the  following  seals: — 

1.  Ecclesiastical  Seal  of  the  Bishop  of  Ossory  to  the  Probate  of  the 
Will  of  Lawrence  Archer,  1575. 

2.  Armorial  Seal,  richly  mantled.     Arms —     ....     on  a  bend, 
three  sheldrakes  (?) — In  the  sinister  chief  a  mullet  or  estoile  of  6  points, 
on  two  of  which  it  rests.     Crest — On  a  wreath  over  an  esquire's  helmet, 
un  estoile,  or  mullet,  resting  on  two  of  the  six  points. 

3.  Armorial  Seal,  richly  mantled.     Arms — On  a  chevron    .... 
between  3  pheons,  as  many  mullets  or  etoiles  of  six  points,  disposed  as 
usual.    Crest — Effaced;  helmet,  however,  remaining. 

4.  A  heart  pierced  by  two  arrows. 


231: 

FCEDEKA,    ETC.    (RYMEIl). 

Vol.  II.  Pars  2,  p.  1188. 
De  hominibus  ad  arma  in  Hibernid  eligendis. 

A.  D.  1342.  An.  16  Edw.  III. — Kex,  justiciaries  Hibernia?,  vel  ejus  locum 
tenenti,  &  fratri  Johanni  Larcher  priori  hospitalis  Sancti  Johannis 
Jerusalem'  in  Hibernia,  Salutem. 

Quia  passagium  nostrum  versus  partes  transmarinas,  tarn  pro 
defensione  regni  nostri  Anglian  quam  pro  recuperatione  jurium  nos- 
trorum  manu  forti,  ordinavimus  in  proximo,  Deo  duce,  &  ea  de  causa, 
multitudinem  armatorum  oportet  necessario  nos  habere ; 

Vobis  mandamus  quod  centum  homines  ad  arma  de  fortioribus 
validioribus,  decentioribus,  et  melioribus  hominibus  terras  nostraa 
Hiberniae,  ac  nongentos  hobelarios  armis  competentibus  bene  &  suffi- 
cienter  munitos,  in  eadem  terra,  cum  celeritate  qua  fieri  poterit, 
eligatis,  arraietis,  &  ipsos  armis  et  aliis  necessariis  muniri  faciatis;  ita 
quod  praedicti  homines,  tarn  armati  quam  hobelarii,  electi,  arraiati,  & 
ad  plenum  muniti,  ut  est  dictum,  prompti  sint  &  parati  cum  vos,  vel 
aliquem  vestrum,  &  ipsos  facerimus  praemuniri,  in  obsequium  nos- 
trum, prout  tune  ordinabimus  profecturi. 

Et  hoc,  sicut  nos  &  honorem  nostrum  ac  expeditionem  negociorum 
nostrorum  diligitis  modis  omnibus  faciatis. 

T.  R.  apud  Turrim  London',  x.  die  Marc'. 

Per  ipsum  Regem  &  Cons'. 

(Id.  p.  1190.) 
De  hobelariis  in  Hibernid  eligendis. 

A.  D.  1342.  An.  16  Edw.  III. — Rex,  justiciario  suo  Hibernia?,  vel  ejus 
locum  tenenti,  &  fratri  Johanni  Larcher,  priori  Hospitalis  Sancti 
Johannis  Jerusalem'  in  Hibernia,  Salutem. 

Cum  nuper  per  breve  nostrum  mandaverimus  vobis,  quod  nongen- 
tos hobelarios  una  cum  aliis  hominibus  ad  arma,  in  dicta  terra  nostra 
Hibernias  celeriter  eligeretis  &  arraiaretis,  &  ipsos  bene  et  competenter 
muniri  faceretis,  quod  prompti  sint  &  parati  ad  proficiscendum  in  ob- 
sequium nostrum  versus  partes  transmarinas,  juxta  mandata  nostra, 
vobis  super  hoc  dirigenda; 

Vobis  quibusdam  de  causis  committimus  &  mandamus  quod  de 
dictis  nougentis  hobelariis  eligi  &  triari,  sexcentos  hobelarios  numeri 
prsedicti,  &  eos  armis,  equis,  et  aliis  necessariis  bene  et  competenter 
muniri  faciatis ; 

Ita  quod  ipsi  sexcenti  hobelarii  una  cum  hominibus  ad  arma  prae- 
dictis,  prompti  sint  &  parati  ad  progrediendum  in  obsequium  nostrum, 
cum  vos  super  hoc  fecerimus  praemuniri. 

Et  hoc  nullo  modo  omittatis. 

T.  R.  apud  Turrim  London',  xx.  die  Marc'. 

Per  ipsum  Regem  &  Cons'. 


232 

REGISTER  OF  ALL  HALLOWS,  DUBLIN.     IR.  ARCH.  Soc.,  1845,  p.  72. 

A  Convention  between  the  Prior  of  the  Convent  of  All  Hallows  &  Adam 
Long,  of  the  town  of  Wicklow,  the  latter  giving  "  illam  placeam  edifi- 
catam  quam  dictus  Adam  emit  de  Galfrido  le  Archer." 
Dated  15  Hen.  III.  (28  Oct.,  1230,  to  27  Oct.,  1231). 

HERALD  AND  GENEALOGIST, 
Manor  of  Bitton,  Gloucestershire. 

The  Manor  of  Oldland  was,  in  1275,  held  by  Gilbert  de  Clare,  while 
David  le  Blund  &  Stephen  de  la  More  held  Bitton. 

From  the  Clares  it  passed  to  the  Earls  of  Stafford.    Inq.  P.  M.,  10  Ric.  2. 

The  dependency  of  Bitton— Hanham — was,  after  the  Doomsday  record, 
held  by  Salso  Marisco  (Saltmarsh).  In  1287  J.  de  S.  M.  founded  his 
title  to  it  on  a  charter  of  Robert  Harding  (ancestor  of  the  Earls  of 
Berkeley),  to  Robert  Hanham,  (ancestor  of  Saltmarsh). 

After  the  year  1327  John  Brittayne  occupied  Bitton  Court,  as  a  tenant. 

In  a  qui  wxrranto,  15  Edw.  I.,  it  is  shown  that  Rob*  D'Amnerville  had 
ttvo  daughters,  both  named  Petronilla.  The  younger  married  Wm 
de  Putot,  Sheriff  of  Glocester,  1222  to  1228,  Warden  of  the  Stan- 
naries, Cornwall,  and  of  the  Bristol  Coast;  the  other  Petronilla  mar- 
ried Nicholas  de  Oxhaye. 


SOME  ADDITIONAL  FACTS  AS  TO  THE  MARRIAGE  OF 
JAMES,  VISCOUNT  THURLES,  AFTERWARDS  DUKE  OF 
ORMONDE,  AND  THE  LADY  ELIZABETH  PRESTON. 

BY   THE    REV.  JAMES    GRAVES,  A.B.,  M.R.I. A. 

SINCE  the  printing  of  a  Paper  on  the  "  Early  Life  and  Marriage 
of  James,  First  Duke  of  Ormonde"  in  the  "Journal"  (vol.  IV., 
new  series,  p.  276),  the  publication  of  the  Calendar  of  the  Irish 
Patent  and  Close  Rolls  of  Chancery  enables  me  to  give  some  fur- 
ther particulars  of  the  marriage  of  the  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston 
with  Lord  Thurles,  fully  confirmatory  of  Carte's  statement  that 
the  ceremony  was  far  from  being  clandestine,  and  had  the  full  con- 
sent of  King  Charles  the  First. 

On  the  death  of  her  father,  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  the  King, 
by  his  Letter,  under  the  Privie  Seal,  to  the  Lord  Deputy  Falkland, 
dated  February  9th,  4  Chas.  I.  (1628),  took  under  his  special  pro- 
tection the  Countess  of  Desmond,  and  her  daughter  and  sole  heir — 
the  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston ;  and  when  the  Countess  died,  another 
Royal  Letter  was  issued  to  the  Lord  Deputy,  dated  April  9th 
following,  which  thus  commences: — 


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"  We  have,  in  our  princely  wisdom,  considered  in  what  misery  and 
distress  the  young  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  is,  by  the  unhappy  death  of 
her  parents,  our  faithful  servant  and  dear  cousin,  Richard,  Earl  of  Des- 
mond, and  the  Lady  Countess,  his  wife,  likely  to  fall  into  and  undergo  ; 
being  young,  and  having  somewhat  an  unsettled  estate,  and  not  many 
friends  to  take  care  of  her  and  her  estate." 

And  then  takes  both  the  person  and  property  of  the  orphan  "  unto 
our  princely  protection  and  care."  It  would  appear,  from  ano- 
another  Koyal  Letter,  dated  April  30th,  that  there  was  some 
difficulty  in  proving  her  age,  and  in  making  her  a  Ward  of  the 
Crown;  and,  finally,  there  is  on  record  a  Royal  Letter,  dated 
September  30th,  in  the  same  year,  which  supplies  undoubted 
evidence  that  the  marriage  took  place  with  the  full  consent 
of  the  Crown,  for  it  was  this  Letter  Patent  which  discharged 
the  bond  of  £1,000,000,  which  Walter,  Earl  of  Ormond,  had 
been  compelled  by  James  I.  to  give  to  Preston,  Earl  of  Des- 
mond, and  his  wife,  with  forfeiture  in  case  he  refused  to  abide 
by  the  Royal  award,  and  which  had  been  by  Preston  assigned  over 
to  that  King — the  consideration  of  the  said  discharge  being  stated 
in  the  following  words  : — 

"We,  graciously  intending  to  make  a  marriage  between  James, 
Viscount  Thurles,  grandchild  and  heir  of  the  said  Earl  of  Ormond  and 
Ossory,  and  the  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston,  daughter  and  heir  of  the  late 
Earl  of  Desmond  and  the  Lady  Elizabeth  his  wife;  and  we  having,  by 
our  Letters  Patent,  granted  the  custody  of  the  body,  and  marriage,  and 
wardship  of  the  lands  of  the  Lady  Preston  to  the  Earl  of  Ormond  and 
Ossory."—  See  Morrin's  "  Calendar  of  the  Patent  and  Close  Rolls  of  Ire- 
land," Charles  I.,  pp.  435,  461,  467,  and  499. 

In  the  Evidence  Chamber,  at  Kilkenny  Castle,  amongst  the 
Ormonde  muniments  is  preserved  the  following  "  true  copy  "  of 
the  Articles  of  Agreement  between  the  parties,  which  preceded  this 
grant  of  the  Crown : — 

"Articles  of  Agreem*  indented  and  made  and  concluded  vpon  the  xxvith 
day  of  August,  Anno  Doni  1629,  and  in  the  5th  yeare  of  the  raigne  of 
or  sou'aigne  Lo.  King  Charles  by  the  Grace  of  God  &c,  Befcweene 
the  right  honorable  Henry  Earle  of  Holland,  Edmond  Earle  of 
Mulgrave,  and  the  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Richard,  late  Earl  of  Desmond,  and  the  Lady  Elizabeth  his  wife, 
sole  daughter  and  heire  of  The  late  Earle  of  Ormond  and  Ossory, 
deceased,  of  the  one  p'tie,  and  the  right  honorable  Walter  Ea.  of 
Ormond  and  Ossory,  and  James  Lo.  Vise.  Thurles,  grandchild  and 
heir  apparent  of  the  said  Earle,  of  the  other  partie,  in  manner  and 
forme  following : — 
"  Imprimis. — It  is  concluded  and  agreed  vpon  by  and  betweene  the 


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»aid  p'ties  to  these  prsents  that  for  as  much  as  neither  the  estate, 
mano",  and  lands  of  the  Earledome  of  Ormond  and  Ossory,  nor  of  the 
Lady  Elizabeth  Preston,  her  mano"  and  lands,  accordinge  to  the  true 
intent  of  these  following  Articles,  can  be  p'fected  or  settled  but  in 
Ireland,  that  as  well  the  office  for  entitling  the  Kinge  to  the  Wardshipp 
of  the  body  and  lands  of  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston,  as  the  estate, 
by  the  general  feoffees  shal  be  setled  as  soone  as  may  be,  or  att  the  fur- 
thest by  the  end  of  next  Easter  Terme,  according  to  the  advice  of 
learned  Counsell;  and  that  there  shall  in  the  meane  time  any  assurance 
be  given  for  the  solemnizing  of  the  marriadge  on  the  Lady  Elizabeth's 
behalfe  wlh  the  Lo.  Vise.  Thurles  before  the  first  day  of  January  next 
ensueinge.  And  for  the  better  eflectinge  thereof,  the  said  Earle  of 
Holland  doth  promise  to  procure  his  maties  royall  assent  therevnto  under 
his  maties  signature  and  privie  signet. 

"  It'm. — It  is  agreed  &c.  that  all  those  mannori  and  lands  conveyed 
at  the  request  of  Queene  Elizabeth  by  the  said  Thomas  late  Ea.  of 
Ormond  and  Ossory,  to  certaine  ffeoffees  and  their  heirs,  to  the  use  of 
the  said  Lady  Elizabeth,  his  daughter,  late  Countesse  of  Desmond,  and 
the  heirs  of  her  bodie  begotten,  shal  bee  settled  on  the  said  Lady  Eliza- 
beth Preston,  and  the  heires  of  her  body  begotten,  wth  remaynders  ac- 
cordinge to  the  estate  settled  vpon  her  mother,  the  said  late  Countesse 
of  Desmond. 

"  It'm. — It  is  agreed  &c.  that  all  the  mannors  and  lands  awarded  by 
his  late  Matie  Kinge  Ja8  of  Blessed  memorie  to  the  said  late  Countesse  of 
Desmond,  and  the  heires  of  her  bodie  begotten,  shal  bee  settled  on  the 
Lady  Elizabeth  Preston,  and  the  heires  males  of  her  body  begotten,  and 
for  want  of  such  issue  to  the  said  Walter  Ea.  of  Ormond  and  Ossorie,  in 
like  manner  as  other  remainders  of  the  lands  of  the  said  Earledome  of 
Ormond  and  Ossorie  are  already  limited  and  settled,  onelie  such  lands  are 
to  be  excepted  mentioned  in  his  late  Maties  Letters,  dated  in  February 
1618,  which  are  to  be  left  accordinge  to  the  tenor  of  the  said  Letter,  or 
sufficient  proofe  made  of  the  p'ticular  contents  thereof  by  the  said  Earle 
of  Ormond  and  Ossorie,  his  heirs  or  assignes,  if  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth 
Preston,  or  some  other  p'son  or  p'sons  for  her  cannot  produce  a  Letter 
vnder  his  late  Mat'08  Royal  signature  countermaundinge  the  afforesaid 
recited  Letter. 

;t  It'm — It  is  agreed,  &c.,  that  the  said  Walter  Ea.  of  Ormond  and 
Ossorie  shall  receave  the  whole  rents  and  p'fits  of  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth 
Preston  her  lands,  soe  to  be  conveyed  and  setled  as  aforesaid,  that  here- 
after shall  grow  due  from  tyme  to  tyme,  vntill  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth 
Preston  comes  to  the  adge  of  sixteen  yeares,  and  then  shee  is  to  have  and 
receive  the  whole  rents  and  p'fitts  of  the  whole  lands  soe  to  be  setled 
vpon  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  as  aforesaid,  quietly  and  peaseably, 
and  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  is  to  have  and  receave  all  arrearages 
of  rents  now  due  to  her  owne  use,  the  said  Walter  Ea.  of  Ormonde  and 
Ossorie  payinge  for  the  maintenance  of  the  said  James  Lo.  Vise.  Thurles, 
and  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  seven  hundred  pounds  of  lawfull 
money  of  England  $  aiio  yearely  ;  and  if  the  said  James  Vise.  Thurles 
shall  happen  to  die  wthin  that  tyme,  then  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Pres- 
ton shall  have  that  full  allowance  to  her  selfe  duringe  all  the  tyme  shee 


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is  vnder  the  said  adge  of  sixteen  yeares,  the  said  some  of  TOO11  to  bee  paid 
halfe  yearely  by  equall  porcons,  and  the  first  paim*  thereof  to  begin  and 
made  out  of  the  rents  to  grow  due  att  Michaelmas  next. 

"  It'm. — It  is  agreed,  &c.,  that  if  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston 
have  noe  heire  male  of  her  body  begotten  lieving  at  the  time  of  her  death, 
then  such  daughters  as  shee  shall  have,  as  well  by  the  said  Lo.  Vise. 
Thurles  as  by  any  other  husband,  shall  receive  their  porcons  out  of  the 
saide  Lady  Elizabeth's  first  mentioned  estate  and  lands  whch  shee  hath  by 
descent  from  her  saide  Mother,  the  saide  Countesse  of  Desmond,  and  they 
shall  equally  inherit  that  land  betweene  them.  And  if  the  said  Lady 
Elizabeth  have  heires  males  of  hir  body  begotten  by  the  said  James 
Vise.  Thurles,  then  her  own  estate  and  lands  afforementioned,  and  alsoe 
the  lands  awarded  by  his  late  Matie  vnto  the  saide  Countesse  of  Desmond 
and  the  heires  of  hir  body,  wch  are  to  be  setled  on  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth 
Preston  &  the  heires  males  of  hir  body  begotten,  as  in  the  aforesaid  third 
article  is  mentioned,  shalbe  alike  and  equally  lyable  wth  the  said  Lady 
Elizabeth  Preston's  lands  for  porcons  of  such  daughters  as  the  said 
Lady  Elizabeth  shall  have  by  the  said  Lo.  Vise.  Thurles,  together  with 
such  lands  of  the  said  Earledome  of  Ormond  and  Ossorie  as  shalbee  setled 
on  the  said  James  Lo.  Vise.  Thurles  :  but  if  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth 
Preston  shall  have  an  heire  male  and  a  daughter  or  daughters  by  any 
other  husband,  that  then  the  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  her  owne  lands, 
and  the  said  lands  awarded  to  the  said  late  Countesse  of  Desmond,  shalbee 
onely  lyable  to  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  her  last  mentioned 
daughter's  porcons,  and  if  shee  have  but  one  daughter,  shee  to  have  300011 
currant  money  of  England  for  her  said  daughter's  porcons,  and  if  shee 
shall  have  more  daughters,  two  thousand  pounds  of  like  money  a  peece 
when  they  shall  attaine  to  the  sevrall  adges  of  fourteene  yeares. 

"  It' in. — It  is  agreed,  &c.,  that  all  mannrs  lordshipps  and  lands  wch  came 
any  way  to  the  said  Walter  Ea.  of  Ormond  and  Ossory  from  the  said 
Tho.  late  Earle  of  Ormond  and  Ossorie  or  his  feoffees,  and  whch  were  not 
awarded  by  his  Matie  vnto  the  said  late  Countesse  of  Desmond  and  the 
heires  of  her  body  begotten  as  afforesaide  shalbee  setled  to  the  vse  of  the 
said  now  Earle  of  Ormond  and  Ossory  for  life  wthout  impeachm*  of  wast, 
wth  power  to  make  leases  of  one  and  twenty  yeares  or  three  lives,  reserv- 
ing the  rents  now  accustomed  for  the  said  lands  or  more,  and  after  to 
the  vse  of  the  said  James  Vise.  Thurles  for  his  life  in  like  manner,  the 
remainder  to  the  vse  of  the  first  begotten  sonn  of  the  said  James  Vise. 
Thurles  and  his  heires  males  of  his  bodie  begotten,  wth  like  remaindrs  to  ten 
other  of  the  said  James  Vise.  Thurles  his  sonns  begotten  successively  one 
after  another,  and  to  the  heires  males  of  theire  severall  bodyes  begotten, 
and  for  want  of  such  issue  the  remaindor  to  the  heires  males  of  the  hody 
of  the  said  Walter  Ea.  of  Ormond  and  Ossory,  with  other  remaindo"  over 
accordinge  to  the  intailes  of  the  Earledome  of  Ormond  and  Ossorie  made 
by  the  said  Thomas  late  Earle  of  Ormond  and  Ossorie. 

*4  It'm. — It  is  agreed,  &c.,  that  all  the  lands  formerly  assured  to  the 
now  Countesse  of  Ormond  for  iointure,  as  well  such  as  were  awarded  to 
the  said  Countesse  of  Desmond,  as  other  now  in  the  said  Walter  Ea.  of 
Ormond  and  Ossory  his  possession,  shalbee  setled  on  the  said  Countesse 
of  Ormond  duringe  her  life  if  shee  survive  the  said  Walter  Earle  of 


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Ormonde  and  Ossory,  the  revrsion  thereof  to  bee  conveyed  as  the  lands  of 
the  Earledome  of  Ormonde  and  Ossorie  [are]  to  be  conveyed  as  afore- 

««  It'm. Its  agreed,  &c.,  that  all  those  manors  and  lands  wch  were  the 

said  Walter  Ea.  of  Ormond  and  Ossorie  his  fathers,  and  wch  have  been  by 
the  said  Earle  purchased  of  others  other  than  from  Thomas  late  Earle  of 
Ormond  and  Ossorie  his  ffeoffees,  and  likewise  all  these  lands  wch  were 
left  to  the  said  Walter  Earle  of  Ormond  and  Ossorie  by  the  said  late 
Matie*  award,  are  to  be  left  wholy  in  the  disposicon  of  the  said  Walter 
Ea.  of  Ormond  and  Ossorie  for  provision  of  the  Lady  Elizabeth  and  the 
Lady  Eleanor  his  daughters  their  porcon,  beinge  unmarryed,  and  for  the 
remainder  of  the  porcon  of  the  Lady  Mary  and  other  of  the  said  Earle  of 
Ormonds  daughters  already  married,  and  for  porcons  for  the  said  Lo. 
Vise.  Thurles  his  sisters  and  younger  brethern  as  he  shall  see  cause. 

"  Itm. — It  is  agreed,  &c.,  that  out  of  the  estates  Manors  and  lands  of 
the  said  Earldome  of  Ormond  and  Ossory  to  be  settled  as  aforesaid  in  the 
said  James  Vise.  Thurles  and  the  heires  males  of  his  body  begotten, 
there  shalbe  p'sently  vppon  the  setlinge  thereof  conveyed  to  the  said 
James  Vise,  of  Thurles  for  his  maintenance  during  the  said  Earle  of 
Ormond  and  Ossory  his  life,  and  for  the  iointure  of  the  said  Lady  Eliza- 
beth Preston,  out  of  that  estate,  one  thousand  Markes  p  Ann.  currant 
moneys  in  England,  but  the  said  James  L.  Vise.  Thurles  is  not  to  re- 
ceive any  p'te  of  the  1000  markes  vntill  midsomer  1632  and  if  the  said 
James  Vise.  Thurles  dye  the  said  Walter  Ea :  of  Ormond  and  Ossory 
liveinge,  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  is  not  to  have  any  of  the  said 
1000  markes  to  bee  conveyed  unto  her  for  iointure  vntill  after  the  said 
Walter  Earl  of  Ormond  and  Ossorie  his  death  :  and  if  the  now  Countesse 
of  Ormond  out  live  the  said  now  Earle  hir  husband  then  the  said  Lady 
Elizabeth  Preston  is,  duringe,  the  life  of  the  said  Countesse,  to  have  but 
500  markes  a  yeare  of  like  money  of  the  said  1000  markes. 

"  Itm. — It  is  agreed,  &c.,  that  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  her 
ffeoffees,  if  there  be  any  after  setlinge  of  the  estate  of  the  Earldome  of 
Ormond  and  Ossory,  shall  at  the  request  of  the  said  Walter  Ea.  of  Or- 
mond and  Ossory  make  leases  of  hir  lands  for  one  and  twenty  yeares  vpon 
improved  rents  w^out  fine,  such  lands  not  beinge  in  Lease  allready  nor 
belonginge  demeasnes  to  any  of  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  her 
chief  houses  of  Kilkenny,  Callan  and  Donmore,  but  the  said  Ea.  of  Or- 
mond and  Ossory  not  to  ioine  therein. 

"Itm. — It  is  agreed,  &c.,  that  the  said  Walter  Ea.  of  Ormond  and 
Ossory,  the  debt  of  fifteene  thousand  pounds  being  paid  to  the  said 
Henry  Earle  of  Holland,  shall  settle  the  whole  tithes  and  alltrages  wch 
he  holds  in  Ireland  for  diulse  yeares  yet  to  come,  the  reu?sion  in  the 
Crowne,  vpon  the  said  James  Vise.  Thurles,  as  the  inanor9  and  lands  of 
the  said  Earldome  of  Ormond  and  Ossorie  are  now  settled  vpon  the  said 
Walter  Earl  of  Ormond  and  Ossory. 

"  Itm.— It  is  agreed,  &c.,  that  the  said  Walter  Earle  of  Ormond  and 
Ossory  shall  not  medle  or  receave  in  his  possession  any  of  the  goods 
chatties  or  household  stuffs  that  was  the  said  late  Earle  and  Countesse 
of  Desmond  in  either  England  or  Ireland,  but  leave  them  wholy  to  the 
said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  and  such  as  shee  shall  appoint  either  for 


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paim*  of  debts  or  otherwise  as  shee  in  honor  shall  thinke  good  to  dispose 
of  them,  and  that  the  goods  and  catties,  whereof  the  said  late  Earle  of 
Desmond  died  possest  of,  shall  not  be  removed  of  or  from  the  houses  or 
lands  where  the  same  were  kept  untill  the  first  day  of  December  next. 

"It'm. — It  is  agreed,  &c.,  that  the  Castle  towne  and  lands  of  Dane- 
fort,  and  the  lands  of  Bennetts  Bridge  wth  all  the  Mills  and  appurte- 
nances therevnto  belonginge  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny  wthin  the  said 
realme  of  Ireland,  wch  are  demised  by  the  said  Walter  Ea.  of  Ormond  and 
Ossory,  Ja.  Vise.  Thurles,  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston,  and  Ed. 
Comerford,  Survivenge  feoffees  of  the  said  Earle,  vnto  Patricke  Weymes 
and  Richard  Christy  Gentlemen,  the  said  Richard  late  Ea.  of  Desmond 
his  sisters  sonnes,  and  couzin  germen  to  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston, 
and  their  assigns,  for  the  tearme  of  one  and  twenty  yeares  to  begin  at 
Easter  next,  yielding  therefore  yearly  vnto  the  said  Walter  Earle  of 
Ormond  and  Ossory  and  his  heires,  for  the  two  first  yeares  of  the  said 
tearme  of  one  and  twentie  yeares,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  of 
lawfull  money  of  and  in  England  att  the  feasts  of  Michas  and  Easter  or 
wthin  twenty  one  dayes  half  yearely,  and  alsoe  yeldinge  therefore  yearely, 
for  the  residue  of  the  said  Tearme  of  one  and  twenty  yeares,  one  paire  of 
Gloves  price  xxs.  vnto  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston  and  the  heires 
males  of  her  body  begotten,  att  the  feast  of  Michas  yearely,  if  the  same 
bee  lawfully  demanded,  shalbee  enioyed  by  the  said  Patricke  Weymes 
and  Richard  Christy  and  theire  assigns  for  and  during  the  said  tearme  of 
one  and  twenty  yeares  any  thinge  herein  contayned  to  the  contrary  there- 
of in  any  notwthstandinge. 

"  In  witnes  whereof  the  p'ties  first  theire  mentioned  to  theis  articles 
of  agrem1  have  interchangeably  put  their  hands  and  scales,  the  day  and 
yeare  above  written. 

"  WALTER  ORMOND  and  OSSORIE. 

"  JAMES  THURLES. 

"  WM-  FAIRFAX. 

"  CHR.  DARCY. 

"  Signed  and  delivered  by  the  within  named 

Walter  Ea.  of  Ormond  Ossory,  and  James  Vise.  Thurles 
in  p'sence  of  us, 

ED.  SHEFFIELD, 
RICHARD  HODSON, 
PAT.  WEYMES, 
WM  SMITH, 
WM  CORKE." 

"  Copia  Vera." 

It  may  be  interesting  to  remark  that  eight  years  previously^ 
viz.,  in  April,  1621,  and  before  the  death  of  Preston,  Earl  of 
Desmond,  a  marriage  was  thought  of,  and  articles  of  agree- 
ment drawn  up  to  secure  it,  between  the  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston, 
and  Lord  Thurles,  the  Earl  of  Ormonde's  grandson.  A  draft 
of  this  agreement  remains  in  the  Evidence  Chamber,  at  Kil- 

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kcnny  Castle,  whereby  it  was  arranged  (April  2nd,  1621),  be- 
tween Walter  Earl  of  Ormonde,  and  Richard  Earl  of  Preston 
and  the  Lady  Elizabeth,  his  wife,  that  their  daughter  and 
heir  should  marry  James,  Viscount  Thurles,  "if  he  shall  con- 
sent thereunto,"  with  proviso  that  if  the  latter  died  the  Lady 
Elizabeth  Preston  should  marry  John  Butler,  next  brother  to 
Lord  Thurles,  "  should  he  thereunto  consent,"  and  so  also  as  to 
the  Viscount's  next  younger  brother,  Richard.  The  estates,  &c.  of 
both  the  contracting  parties  to  be  settled  on  the  heirs  males  of  the 
said  marriage,  with  a  life  use  to  the  contracting  parties,  and  re- 
mainders "  acconlinge  to  ancient  entayle  of  the  house  of  Ormond." 
And  finally  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  on  the  Earl  of  Ormond's  ful- 
filling the  conditions  of  the  agreement,  promises  to  procure  from 
the  king  the  discharge  of  the  bond1  in  which  the  Earl  of  Ormonde 
was  bound  to  submit  to  the  Royal  award. 

This  treaty  of  1621  came  to  nothing,  and  there  is  a  Paper  at 
Kikenny  Castle,  drawn  upon  the  part  of  Walter  Earl  of  Ormonde, 
to  show  that  the  fault  was  net  on  his  side,  the  unwillingness 
to  complete  the  arrangement  being  entirely  on  the  part  of  the 
Earl  and  Countess  of  Desmond.  The  parties  were  but  children  at 
this  time,  but  must  have  even  then  known  each  other  well,  as  this 
document  states  that,  about  July,  1621, — 

"  There  having  beene  severall  things  as  tokens  of  love  delivred  mu- 
tually betweene  the  Lord  Thurles  and  the  younge  Ladye,  the  Countesse 
of  Desmond,  wthin  lesse  than  tenn  days  after,  tooke  those  that  the  Lord 
had  and  sent  back  those  that  the  younge  Lady  had." 

The  last  paragraph  in  the  Agreement3  of  1629  gives  very 
interesting  information  as  to  the  close  relationship  between  Patrick 
Wemys  (ancestor  to  Otway  O'Connor  Wemys,  Esq.,  of  Danes- 
fort,  County  Kilkenny)  and  the  Lady  Elizabeth  Preston,  after- 
wards Duchess  of  Ormonde.  Dunfert  (called  Danefort  in  the 
Agreement,  and  now  further  corrupted  into  Danesfort)  was  an 
ancient  castle  and  manor  of  the  Ormonde  family.  The  castle  is 
modernised,  and  forms  part  of  the  present  house. 

1  By  an  oversight  the  amount  of  the  should  read  "  September  3rd." 

bond  extorted  from  Walter  Earl  of  Or-  2This  agreement  was  perfected;  it 

monde   was,  at  p.  333,  supra,  given  as  is  enrolled  in  Chancery.     See  Morrin's 

€1,000,000,   instead  of  £100,000,   and  "Calendar  of  the    Patent  and    Close 

in  the  same  page   »  September  30th,"  Rolls,"  Chas.  L,  p.  648. 


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ANCIENT  UagS  AND 

THE  FEE-BOOK  OF  A  PHYSICIAN  OF  THE  SEVENTEENTH 

CENTURY. 

BY    MAURICE   LENIHAN,    ESQ.,    M.  R.  I.  A.,    AUTHOR  OF  THE  "HISTORY 
OF    LIMERICK,"     ETC.    ETC. 

(Continued  from  p.  176.) 

Anno  Dni  1633 

£  s.  d. 

"  Sr  Johannes  Cloth worthey  p'dictus  p  sua  Dna  25°  Martij,  04  00  0 

"  Dris  Dillon  de  Kilkenny  West  p'dictus  26°  Martij,  ...  03  00  0 

''John  Moore  de  Crokane  p  uxore  27°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Edwardus  Johannis  Arthurius  p'dictus  28°  Martij,  .  .  .  00  1 1  0 

"  Mr  Brent  Moore  29°  Martij, 00  11  0 

"  Matrona  Baggott  p'dicta  30°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Moore  p'dictus  p  eadem  uxore  31°  Martij,  .  .  01  00  0 

"  Quida  e  rure  veniens  1°  Aprilis, 00  3  0 

"  Matrona  /"leining  assidua  Cariuaria  eaq>  uenenata  nimiu  af- 

flicta  1°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Christophorus  Caruan  p  uxore  1°  Aprilis, 00  5  0 

"  Thomas  Arthurius  Johannis  p'dict  3°  Aprilis,  ....  00  10  0 

"  Bernardus  Corkraine  3°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Nugent  p'dictus  p  filio  4°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

u  Dila  Parsons  p'dicta  p  filio  Johanne  p'dicto  6°  April,  .  .  01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Baggott  p'dicta  8°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Comes  Antrim  praedictus  10°  Aprilis, 05  00  0 

"  Bernardus  Corkraine  p'dictus,  12°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"Johannes  Moore  p'dictus  p  eadem  uxore  13°  Aprilis,  .  .  01  00  0 

"  Bernardus  Corkraine  p'dictus  15°  Aprilis, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Richardus  Blaney  in  hecticam  vergens  19°  Aprilis, .  .  02  00  0 

"  Talbott  de  Atherdie  21°  Aprilis, 00  5  0 

"  Thomas /leming  de  Creuagh  21°  Aprilis,    ......  01  00  0 

"  Sr  Jacobus  Moore  Arquato  nigro  \  cachexia  grauiter  la- 

borans  preeter  spem  restitutus  27°  Aprilis, 1 0  00  0 

"  Sr  Anthonius  Brabazon  p'dictus  in  Hecticam  vergens  28° 

Aprilis, 01  00  0 

"Decanus  Colombe  p'dictus  p  eadem  uxore  1°  Maij,  .  .  .  00  10  0 

"  Bernardus  Corkraine  p'dictus  2°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dictus  3°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Decanus  Columbe  p'dictus  4°  Maij,  ........  00  10  0 

"  Adrianus  Bott  belga  5°  Maij, 00  5  0 

"  Decanus  Columbe  p'dict  p  eade  5°  Maij, 00  10  0 

"  Gerraldus  Nugent  6°  Maij, 00  3  0 

"  Sr  Guilielimus  Vssher  senior  p'dictus  6°  Maij,  ....  01  00  0 

"Johannes  Greinham  p'dictus  7°  Maij, 00  5  0 

"  Richardus  Blaney  p'dictus  7°  Maij 02  00  (> 


240 

£    s.  d. 

'  Patritiu3  Darcey  iurisperitus  p'dictus  9°  Mnij,    ....  01  00  0 

'  Josephus  Ware  pro  vxore  11°  Maij, 00   10  0 

*  Dfis  de  Baltinglas  p'dictus  p  filio  Carolo  12°  Maij,   .     .     .  01   00 

*  Dfia  Parsons  p'dicta  p  coquo  suo  13°  Maij, 00   10  0 

1  Decanus  Bernardus  p'dictus  de  Kilmore  p  uxore  13°  M.,  .  00     6  0 

"Josephus  Ware  p  dicta  uxore  14°  Maij, 00  10  0 

«  Ricluirdus  Blaney  p'dictus  15°  Maij, 02  00  0 

Guilielimus  Plunkett  scriba  p'dictus  16°  Maij,    ....  00  10  0 

Sr  Lucas/itz  Gerald  p'dictus  p  filio  Edwardo  17°  Maij,    .  01    10  0 

Richardus  Blaney  p'dictus  18°  Maij, 2   10  0 

Sir  Johannes  Clothworthey  p'dictus  pro  uxore  22°  Maij,  .  1    10  Q 

Leticia1  Clothworthey  virgo  23°  Maij, 01    10 

Mr  Ridge  minister  puritanus  23  Maij, 00     6  0 

Patritius  Morrish  24  Maij, 01      4 

Quffida  generosa  Vltoniensis  /bemina  24°  Maij,      ....  00     8  0 

Edmundus  Brookes  p  filio  26°  Maij 03  00  0 

*'  Thomas  Clothworthey  decurio  pthisicus  ppe  Dtmegannen 

apud  Ballinsaggart  30°  Maij, 20  00  0 

"  Dna  Blaney  senior  1°  Juriij, 01  00 

"  Dna  Blaney  iunior  2°  Junij,     ...           00  11  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dictus  3°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Dillon  de  Costilogallen  p'dicta  4°  Junij, 01   00  0 

"Mr  Georgius  lladcleefe  p'dictus  5°  Junij 00  10  0 

"Diia  Dillon2  de  Costilogallen  p'dicta  6°  Junij,       ....  01  00  0 

44  Thomas  Arthurius  Johannis  p'dictus  p  uxore  7°  Junij,     .  00  10  0 

"  Mr  Raymonds  p  uxore  8°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"Sr  Robertus/uord  p'dictus  p  sua  Bna  9°  Junij,  .     .     •     .  00  11  0 

"Mr  Panthin  mercator  10°  Junij, 00   10  0 

"  Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  11°  Junij, 00   1 1  0 

"  Dua/ortescue  p  liliola  12°  Junij, 01  00  0 

"  Georgius  Andrewes  pseudo  Decanus  Linlicensis  p'd.  14° 

Junij, 00     6  0 

"  Dna  Moore  de  Crochaine/enior  21°  Junij, 09  00  0 

uMr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dictus  p  uxore  22°  Junij,  ...  01  00  0 

"  Adam  Loftus3  Vicecomes  de  Ely  Cancellarius  23°  Junij,    .  01     2  0 

1  Leticia  was  a  family  name  of  the  ward   Loftus    of  Swineshead,    county 
Skeffingtons,    who  formed   an   alliance  York,   and  nephew  of  the  Rev.  Adam, 
with  the  Clotworthy  family.     Sir  John  Lofthouse,   who,   as   private   chaplain, 
Clotworthy  was  elevated  to  the  peer-  accompanied  the  Viceroy,  Thomas  Earl 
age  of  Ireland  by  Charles  II.,  Nov.  21,  of  Sussex,  to  Ireland,  and  was  conse- 
KMJO,    as  Baron  of  Lough  Neagh   and  crated    Archbishop    of  Armagh,    20th 
Viscount  Massarene.  January,  1562-3 ;  translated  to  Dublin 

2  This  lady  was  the  Lady  Mary  Mac  as  Archbishop  in  August,  1567,  and  in 
Donnell,  third  daughter  of  Randal,  first  six  years  afterwards  was  Keeper  of  the 
Earl  of  Antrim,    who  married,  at  the  Great  Seal ;    having   been   constituted 
age  of  15  years,  Lucas,  second  Viscount  Lord    High   Chancellor    of  Ireland   in 
Dillon,  who  died   in  1629,  leaving   an  15J8.     Dr.  Arthur's  patient  was  an  emi- 
ouly  son,   Theobald,   as  his  successor.  nent  lawyer,  was  appointed  Lord  Chan- 
Costilogallen,  Co.  Sligo,  is  still  the  resi-  cellor  of  Ireland  in  1619,  and  created, 
dence  of  Viscount  Dillon.  in  1622,    Viscount    Loftus   of  Elye,   a 

3  This  was  Adam  Loftus,  the  son  of      dignity  which   expired  with   his   lord- 
Robert   Loftus,  and   grandson  of  Ed-       ship's  grandson  Arthur,  third  Viscount, 


241 

£    5.  d. 

<  Edwardus  Johannis  Arthurius  pMictus  p  uxore  24°  Junij,  00  10  0 

"  Dna  Baltinglas  p' dicta  p  filia  Maria  Roper  25°  Junij,  .     .  00  10  0 

"Doctor  Robertus  Yssher  p'dictus  26°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Shepheard  27°  Junij, 00  10  0 

u  Eadem  28°  Junij, 00  10  0 

"  S'/aythfuU  Eortescue  p'dictus  29°  Junij, 02  00  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dictus  p  uxore  30°  Junij,  .     .     .  00  10  0 

*'  Idem  pro  eadem  1°  Julij, 00  10  0 

"Georgius  Andrewes  p'dictus  pseudo  Decanus  2°  Julij,  .     .  00  10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  uxore  p'dicta  4°  Julij,       .     .     .  00  10  0 

"Ancilla  Cooperi  3°  Julij, 00  05  0 

uMr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  uxore  p'dicta  3°  Julij,  .     ...  00  10  0 

"  Dna  de  Baltinglas  p'dicta  5°  Julij, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  uxore  p'dicta  6°  Julij,  ....  01  00  0 
"  Mr  Paulus    Davys  £  uxore  Margarita  Vssher  p'dicta  8° 

Julij, 02  00  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  uxore  p'dicta  9°  Julij,  ....  01  00  0 

"  Mr  Paulus  Davys  p'dicta  p  uxore  10°  Julij, 1  00  0 

"Mr  Comerfoord  11°  Julij, 01   00  0 

"  Mr  Dalton  12°  Julij, 00  10  0 

"Mp  Paulus  Davys  p  uxore  p'dicta  14°  Julij, 01   00  0 

"  Mr  Comerfoord  iuuenis  p'dictus  16°  Julij, 00   10  0 

"  Parson  Bradey  Ultoniensis  18°  July, 00  11  0 

"  M1  Phillippus  Perciual  g  Edmundo  Smyth  p'dicto  19°  Julij,  0010  0 

"  Mr  Comerfoord  juvenis  p'dictus  20  Julij, 00  11  0 

"  Queedam  generosa  mulier  ruri  degens  21°  Julij,  ....  00  10  0 
"  Sr  Basilius  Brookes1  de  Ultonia  cui,  ixpvpta,  a  crasso  hu- 
more  ceruicem  vesicse  obturante  oborta,  laboranti,temera- 
rius  quida  medicus  cantbarides  sumendas  p'scripserat, 
quaru  malignante  t  acrimonia  sphyncter  vesicle  infla- 
matus  t  exesus  est,  necn5  totus  penis  Ductus  comunis 
sceptica  vi  medicamenti  putredine  consumptus  est,  tan- 
dem/ebre  t  cruciatibus  intollerabilibus  interiit,  me  ac- 
cessiuit  24°  Julij,  que,  instituta  pgnosi  de  repentino 
obitu,  comonui  ut  saluti  animse  pspiceret,  ac  rebus  suis 

disponendis  quam  citius  consulerat,  sorti  suas  comisi,      .  01  00  0 

"  Christopherus  Wandesfoord3  magister  Rotuloru  26°  Julij,  00  10  0 

"  Diia  Parsons  p'dicta  28  Julij, 00  10  0 

who  died  6th  Nov.  1725,  without  leav-  Governor  of  the  town  and  castle  of 
ing  male  issue,  when  his  Monasterevan  Donegal,  and  being  one  of  the  Corn- 
estate  passed  to  his  only  daughter  missioners  for  the  settlement  of  Ulster, 
Jane's  son  (by  Charles,  Lord  Moore),  obtained  from  the  Crown  large  grants 
Henry,  Fourth  Earl  of  Drogheda.  The  of  land  in  Donegal.  Sir  Victor  Alex- 
title  was  revived  in  Nicholas  Loftus,  ander  Brooke,  of  Cole-Brook,  county 
Esq.,  M.  P.  for  Wexford  county,  a  de-  Fermanagh,  is  the  descendant  of  the 
scendant  of  Edward  Loftus's  second  son  above  Sir  Basil,  and  s.  his  father  21st 
Adam,  who  on  the  5th  Oct.,  1761,  was  Nov.  1854. 

created  Baron    Loftus  of  Loftus  Hall,  2  Sir  Christopher  Wandesforde  pur- 

and  in  1756,  Viscount  Loftus  of  Ely.  chased  from  the  Earl  of  Ormonde  the 

1  Sir  Basil  Brooke  came  over  to  Ire-  territory   of  Ui  Duach,   or  Idough,  in 

land,  temp.  Elizae.,  and  serving  under  the   county   of  Kilkenny,   and  settled 

Lord  Mount) oy  in  Ulster,  was  appointed  there. 


242 

£    5.  d. 
"Gualterus  Vssher   Senator  p  uxore   Maria   Kennedy  1° 

August!, 01  00  0 

"  Mr  Brynn  p  uxore  2°  Augusti, 00  15  0 

"  Jacobus  Duff  p'dictus  nephriticus  3°  Augusti,    .... 

"  Matrona  Buckcurst  p  filia  4°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  Maria  Netlethon  5°  Augusti,      .     00  10  0 

"Matrona  Phoebe  Vssher  p'dicta  6°  Augusti, 01  00  0 

"  Jacobus  Duff  p'dictus  nephriticus  7°  Augusti,     ....     00   10 

"  Johannes  Hoyss  pro  uxore  8°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"  Georgius  Bodley  p'dictus  p  uxore  9°  Augusti,     ....     00  11  0 
"  Johannes  /leming  p  uxore  p' dicta  cariuaria  contumacia  1 

molestissima  laborante  10°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Hoys  p'dictus  pro  eadem  uxore  11°  Augusti,     .     00  10  0 

"  Idem  p  eadem  12°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"Georgius  Bodeley  p'dictus  p  uxore  12°  Augusti,      ...     00  10  0 
"Thomas  Skyddy1  actor  negociorii,  pro  Edmundo  Barrij  14° 

Augusti, 01  00  0 

"Matrona  Bukcurstp  filia  p'dicta  16°  Augusti,     ....     00  10  0 

"Johannes  Fleming  p  p'dicta  uxore  18°  Augusti,       ...     00  10  0 
"  Diis  Carolus  Vicecomes  Moore2  p  uxore  variolis  objessa 

190  A 03  00  0 

"  Daniel  o  Neijle  p  uxore  sua  relicta  quonda  Georgii  Sexten 

qua  febris  a  plethora  oborta  6°.  die  qua  ad  earn  accessi 

suffocavit  18°  Augusti, 04  00  0 

"  Sir  Henricus  Pyers  p  filio  variolis  dolente  22°  Augusti,    .     01  00  0 

"Jacobus  Duff  p'dictus  23°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"  Sr  Henricus  Pyers  p'dicto  filio  24°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Leynham  p  amico  24°  Augusti, 00     4  0 

"  Dfis.  Baro  Digbey  p  sua  Dfia  iam  mortua  25°  Augusti,     .     03  00  0 

"  Sir  Guilielimus  Parsons  p'dictus  27°  Augusti,    ....     01  00  0 

"  Johannes  Latina  p'dictus  28°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

"  Comes  Westmedise  29°  Augusti, 01   00  0 

"  Sir  Donogh  Mc  Carty  primo  genitus  Vicecomitis  de  Mus- 

crey3  febre  detentus  30°  Augusti, 01  00  0 

"Idem  31°  Augusti, 00  10  0 

u  Dili  de  Kyrye  vidua  1°  Septembris,        00  1 1  0 

"  Sir  Donnogh  Mc  Carty  p'dictus  2°  Septernbris,    ....     01   00  0 

"  Idem  3°  Septembris,       . 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dictus  p  uxore  4°  Septembris,     .     01  00  0 

"  Idem  pro  eadem  5°  Septembris, 00  10  0 

"  Carolus  Carty  dns  de  Muscry  6°  Septembris,       .     .     .     .     00  10  0 

1  The  Skyddy  family  occupied  the       Loftus,  Viscount  Ely,  and  was  s.  by  his 
position  of  mayors  at  several  periods  in       eldest  son,  Henry,  who  was  created  Earl 
Cork.     The  real  name    of  Skyddy  is       of  Drogheda  14th  June,  1661. 
Scudamore,  or  Scutamore.  3  The  MacCarthys,  ancient  Irish  lords 

*  This  nobleman  was  second  Vis-  of  Muskerry,  were  made  Peers  of  Par- 
count,  and  was  killed  at  Pole  Castle,  liament  in  the  year  1628.  by  the  title  of 
county  Meath,  15th  August,  1643,  in  Viscount  Muskerry.  The  present  Earl 
the  service  of  Charles  I.  He  married  of  Clancarty  is  descended  by  the  female 
Alice,  youngest  daughter  of  Sir  Adam  line  from  the  first  Lord  Muskerry. 


243 

£    8.  d. 

"  Gualterus  Bodely  7°  Septembris, 00  10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  p' dicta  uxore  7°  Septembris,  .     .  01  00  0 

"  Johannes  Hoy ss  p  p' dicta  uxore  8°  Septembris,  ....  01  00  0 

"  Gualterus  Bodly  p'dictus  9°  Septembris, 00  10  0 

"Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  eadem  uxore  10°  Septembris,      .  01   00  0 

"Thomas  Ley  Scriba  p'dictus  11°  Septembris, 00  11  0 

"  Gualterus  Bodley  p'dictus  12°  Septembris, 00   10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  eadem  uxore  13°  Septembris,       .  01  00  0 

"Jacobus  Duff  p'dictus  p  filio  14°  Septeb 00     5  0 

"Matrona  Plunkett  p'dicta  14°  Septembris, 00   10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  eadem  uxore  15°  Septembris,       .  01   00  0 

"  Matrona  Plunkett  p'dicta  16°  Septembris, 00  10  0 

"  Sr  Jacobus  Moore  p'dictus  p  uxore  17°  Septembris,       .     .  01  00  0 

"Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  p  famulo  18°  Septembris,     ....  00   10  0 
"  Dns  Muereryh  Bourk  Vice  Comes  de  Maio1  p  primogenito 

20°  Septembris, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Plunkett  p'dicta  22°  Septembris, 00  10  0 

"  Thomas  /leming  de  Creuagh  p'dictus  23°  Septembris,  .     .  0011  0 

"  Mr  Christophorus  Windesfourd  p'dictus  25°  Septembris,  .  00  10  0 

"  Idem  26°  Septembris, 00  10  0 

"  Idem  27°  Septembris, 00   10  0 

"  Idem  28°  Septembris, 00   10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p  uxore  p'dicta  29°  Septembris,     .  01  00  0 

"  Mr  Cristophorus  Windesfourd  p'dictus  30°  Septembris,    .  0010  0 

"  Idem  1°  Octobris, 00   10  0 

"  Idem  2°  Octobris, 00   10  0 

"  Mr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dictus  p  filio  Thoma  2°  Octobris,  01  00  0 

**  Christopherus  Wandesfourd  p'dictus  3°  Octobris,    ...  00  10  0 

"  Mr  Rogerus  0  Moroh  alias  Hoore*  4°  Octobris,    ....  01  00  0 

"  Andreas  Babe  de  Atherdie  5°  Octobris, 02  06  0 

"Matrona  Sara  Buckcurst  p  filia  p'dicta  6°  Octobris,      .     .  01   00  0 

"  Mr  Anderson  pro  uxore  7°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Wentworth  p  ancilla  honoraria  Brigita  8°  Octobris, .  01  00  0 


1  Sir  Myles  Bourke,  second  Viscount  with  the  eighth  Viscount  in  1767. 
Mayo,  who  took  his  seat  in  Parliament,  4  2  The  far-famed  Rory,  or  Roger, 
November,  1634,  and  (according  to  Arch-  O' Moore,  who  figured  so  prominently 
dall's  "Lodge,"  vol.  iv.,  p.  238),  being  a  in  the  times  immediately  succeeding 
Protestant,  was,  on  the  breaking  out  of  these,  and  whose  exploits  nil  a  remark- 
the  rebellion,  appointed  by  the  State,  able  page  in  Irish  history.  It  is  rather 
with  Thomas  Viscount  Dillon,  joint  Go-  a  curious  state  of  facts  that  Dr.  Thomas 
vernor  of  the  county  of  Mayo,  and  had  Arthur  appears  to  have  been  brought 
a  commission  for  the  suppression  of  the  face  to  face,  oftentimes  in  the  same 
outbreak,  and  the  preservation  of  all  His  week,  with  the  most  pronounced  "na- 
Majesty's  loyal  subjects  in  those  parts.  tionalists"  of  his  day,  and  with  the  most 
He  afterwards  forsook  the  Protestant  unquestionable  representatives  of  the 
religion,  and  Archdall's,  loc.  cit,,  de-  English  interest  in  Ireland.  He  ad- 
votes  a  considerable  amount  of  matter  to  hered  earnestly,  no  doubt,  to  his  reli- 
show  by  what  steps  he  abandoned  Pro-  gious  convictions,  but  his  knowledge 
testantism,  and  how  far  he  was  instru-  of  men  and  manners  kept  him  clear  of 
mental  in  the  rebellion.  The  title  was  politics,  and  enabled  him  to  make  friends 
created  in  1627,  and  ceased  to  exist  on  both  sides. 


244 

£      5.  d. 

"  Mr  Anderson  p'dictus  p  eade  uxore  9°  Octobris,      ...  00  10  0 

"  Mr  Carr  amanuensis  pro  regis  10°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"Richardus  Talbot  de  Malahoyde  p'dictus  p  uxore  12°  Oc- 
tobris,          01  00  0 

"Matrona  Anna  Pyeres  13°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Guilielimus  Brabazon  Comes  Midiae1  p'dictus  14°  Octobris,  01   00  0 

"Mr  Leake  p  uxore  p'dicta  15°  Octobris, 01   00  0 

"Richardus  Talbott  p'dictus  16°  Octobris, 00  13  0 

"  Dns  de  Merion  p  filia  Francisca  p'dicta  17°  Octobris,    .     .  01  00  0 

"  Matrona  Anna  Pyeres  p'dicta  18°  Octobris, 01  00  0 

"Eadem  19°  Octobris, 01   00  0 

"  Mr  Alderson  p  uxore  p'dicta  20°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Anna  Pyers  p'dicta  21°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"  Quida  piscator  de  Mallahoyde  22°  Octobris, 00     5  0 

"  Sir  Thomas  Butler  p  filio  23°  Octobris, 01  00  0 

"  Mr  Richardus  Parsons  pro  uxore  25°  Octobris,    ....  01   00  0 

"  Thomas  Lye  p'dictus  26°  Octobris,  ........  01  00  0 

"  Mr  Alderson  p'dictus  p  eade  uxore  27°  Octobris,      .     .     .  00  10  0 
"  Dudleus  Bosswell  studiosus  cui  ex  improuiso  fragmentu 
confracti  vitrei  in  occulum  irrueus  coronea  tunica  dis- 
cutit,  unde  humor  aquaeus  affluxit,  eumo^  mox  vitreus  t 
cristialinus  humores  subsequiti  sunt  et  tanta  oborta  fuit 

inflamatio  ut  difficulter  euajerat  28°  Octobris,  .     .     .     .  00   15  0 

"  Piscator  p'dictus  de  Mallahoyde  29°  Octobris,      ....  00     5  0 

"Decanus  Bernadus  p'dictus  29°  Octobris, 00     5  0 

"  Sr  Thomas  Button  p'dictus  p  uxore  30°  Octobris,    .     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Dudleus  Bos  well  p'dictus  30°  Octobris,    \ 00  10  0 

"  Quidam  Daniell  o  Brijen  de  thuomonise  30°  Octobris,   .     .  00     3  0 

"Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  31°  Octobris, 00  10  0 

"Richardus  Talbott  p'dictus  31°  Octobris, 00     5  0 

"  Sr  Georgius  Radcleefe  p'dictus  1°  Novembris,     ....  00  10  0 

«« Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  2°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Alexander  Gordoun  3°  Novembris, 00  11  0 

"  Doudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  4°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Johanes  Gould2  de  Corcagia  4°  Novembris, 00  10  6 

"  Dudley  Boswell  p'dictus  5°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Sr  Thomas  Dutton  p  uxore  p'dicta  6°  Novembris,    ...  00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Gould  p'dictus  Corcagiensis  7°  Novembris,    .     .  00   10  0 

"  Thomas  Bennett  dissentericus  7°  Novembris 01000 

"  Richardus  Talbott  p'dictus  8°  Novembris, 00     5  6 

"  Matrona  Maddine  8°  Novembris, 01  00  0 

"  Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  9°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

1  This  was  William  Brabazon,  second      Right  Hon.  Sir  John  Bingly,  Knt.,  and 

Baron  of  Meath,  who  was  created,  16th  was  *.  in  1651,  by  his  only  son,  Ed- 
April,  1627,  Earl  of  Meath,  with  re-  ward,  second  Earl, 

mainder  in  default  of  direct  male  issue           2  The  Goulds  of  Cork,  an  ancient  fa- 

to  his  brother,  Sir  Anthony  Brabazon,  mily  connected  with  that  city,  are 
rtife  ^ale  heir,S*  His  LordshiP  »•  stated,  by  Smith,  the  Historian  of  Cork, 
in  1G07,  Jane,  eldest  daughter  of  the  to  be  of  Danish  descent 


245 

£    s.  d. 

«  Johannes  McCabba  9°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"Mr  Windebanke  10°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

41  Mr  Windebank  10°  Novembris, 00  10  1 

"Dna/ortescue  |>  filiola  p'dicta  11°  Novembris,      .          .     .  01   00  0 

"  Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  11°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

'  Comes  Midei  p'dictus  12°  Novembris, 01  00  0 

'Sir  Thomas  Button  p'dictus  13°  Novembris, 00   10  0 

'Andreas  Babe  p'dictus  de  Athardye  14°  Novembris,      .     .  00     5  0 

'  Quida  de  Mallahoyde  14°  Novembris, 00     2  6 

<Mr  Gibbons  Senator,  14°  Novembris, 00     5  0 

'  Matrona  Nugent  15°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

'  Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  15°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

'  Dna  Clothworthey  £  filia  Letitia  16°  Novemb 07  00  0 

"Comes  Midie  Brabazon  p'dictus  17°  Novembris,       ...  01  00  0 

"  Doctor  Robertus  Yssher  p'dictus  17°  Novembris,    .     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Quida  de  Vltonia  generosus  18°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  18°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Doctor  Robertus  Vssher  p'dictus  19°  Novembris,     ...  00  10  0 

"  Jean  Boswell  clinica  19°  Novembris,       .......  00     5  0 

"Matrona  Nugent  p'dicta  20°  Novembris, 00   10  0 

"  Dudleus  Boswell   p'dictus  20°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Johannes  Goulde  corcagiensis  p'dictus  21°  Novembris, .     .  00     5  0 

"Sir  Georgius  Eadcleefe  p'dictus  21°  Novembris,  .     ...  00  10  0 

"  Bernardus  Corkraine  p'dictus  22°  Novembris,     ....  00  10  0 

"Mr  Cart wright  aedilis  dm  Proregis  23°  Novembris,       .     .  01   00  0 

"  Filia  Sir  Thomas  Button  p'djcti  24°  Novembris,      .     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  24°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Thomas  /leming  de  Crevagh  p'dictus  25°  Novembris,    .     .  00     5  0 

"  Thomas  Ley  p'dictus  25°  Novembris, 00   11  0 

"  Johannes  Dumbill  p  filio  26°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Sir  Kobertus  King  p'dictus  p  uxore  p'dicta  26°  Novem.    .  01  00  0 

"  Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  27°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  27°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  28°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Matrona  Nugent  p'dicta  Novembris, 01   02  0 

"  Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  29°  Novembris, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Vicecomitissa  Wentworth  pro  filia  Proregis  Arabella 

30°  Novembris, 01  00  0 

"  Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  1°  Decembris, ...  00  10  0 

"  Dna  Wentworth  p  eadem  /ilia  2°  Decembris,       ....  01  00  0 

"  Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  3°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Wentworth  p'dicta  p  eadem  filia  3°  Decembris,     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  4°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Wentworth  p  filia  p'dicta  4°  Decembris,       ....  01  00  0 

"  Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  5°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"  Dna  Wentworth  p  filia  p'dicta  5°  Decembris,       .     .     .     .  01  00  0 

"  Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  6°  Decembris, 00  10  0 

"  Dns  Carolus  McCarty  vicecomes  Muscrey  p'dictus  6°  Dec.  00  10  0 

"  Uxor  pseudo  decan.  Colume  p'dicti  7°  Decembris,    .     .     .  00  10  0 

"  Catherina  Tumor  uxor  Nicholaii  Plunkett  7°  Decemb.      .  00  11  0 

2  K 


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Diia  Wentworth  p  filia  p'dicta  8°  Decembris,      . 

Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  8°  Deer.,        

Dna  Parsons  p'dicta  p  Nepte  Gennetta  9°  Der.  . 
Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  9°  Decembris  9°  Deer,  (sic], 
Uxor  pseudo  Decan.  Colume  p'dicta  10°  Decembris, 
Sir  Rcgerus  O'Shaghneshy  10°  Decembris,     .... 

Dudleus  Boswell  p'dictus  11°  Decembris, 

Quidfi  Sutor  pro  filio  12°  Decembris 

Uxor  Decan.  Columbe  p'dicta  13°  Decembris,      .     .     . 

Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  14°  Decembris, 

Mr  Johannes  Hoyesse  p'dictus  p  p'dicta  uxore  15°  Dec. 

Johannes  Carbrey  p  filio  16°  Decembris, 

Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  17°  Decembris, 

Mr  Aylmer1  iuris  peritus  18°  Decembris, 

Dna  Roberti  Loftus  21°  Decem., 

Sir  Roger  0  Sheaghnessey3  p'dictus  23°  Dec.       .     .     . 


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1  The    Aylmer   family,   of  whom  we 
shall  have  more  to  say  as  we  proceed, 
distinguished  themselves  highly  in  the 
profession  of  the  law  in  Ireland.     Sir 
Gerald  Aylmer,  Knt,  of  Dullardstown, 
county    Meath,   second  son  of  Bartho- 
lomew Aylmer,  Esq.,  of  Lyons,  county 
Kildare,  by  his  wife,  Margaret  Chivers, 
rose  to  great  eminence  in  the  legal  pro- 
fession, and  was  constituted  one  of  the 
Justices  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas 
in  1532,  from  which   he  was  removed 
to  the  presidency  of  the  Court  of  Ex- 
chequer; and  in  1535,  he  returned  as 
Chief  Justice  to  the  former  Court.     It 
was  Sir  Gerald  Aylmer  who  earnestly 
recommended  Henry  VIII.  to  compel 
the  owners  of  Irish  estates  to  reside  at 
home,  and  induced  the  Act  of  Absen- 
tees to  be  enacted — a  measure  the  revi- 
val of  which  at  the  present  period  would 
be   a  very  popular   movement   on   the 
part  of  Her  Majesty,  Her   Ministers, 
and  the  Imperial  Parliament. 

2  Sir   Roger  O'Shaughnesey  was  the 
son  of  Dermot,  who  died  in  1606,  seised 
of    the    territory     of    Kinalea,     alias 
O'Shaughnesey  country,  leaving  Roger, 
otherwise  Gilleduff  (then  aged  twenty- 
three  years,  and  married),  his  heir,  and 
Shyly-Nyn  Hubert  his  widow.     Sir  Ro- 
ger, the  younger,  was  distinguished  by 
his   humanity   during  the   struggle   of 
1641.     A  characteristic  portrait,  with  a 
flowing  red  beard,  extant  at  Kilkenny 
Castle,   preserves  the    memory   of  his 
personal  appearance.    This  was  a  noble 
Irish  family  of  the  Heremonian  line,  and 
was  from  the  earliest  period  connected 


with  the  old  natives  of  Gal  way.  In  1648, 
it  was  ordered  in  a  by-law  of  the  Cor- 
poration of  the  city  "that  Lieut.-Col. 
William  O'Shaughnessie  (in  considera- 
tion of  his  allyance  in  bloode  to  the  whole 
towne,  and  for  the  goodnature  and  affec- 
tion he  and  his  whole  family  doe  bear  to 
it)  and  his  posteritie  shall  be  hereafter 
freemen  of  this  Corporation  ;"  Sir  Der- 
mot, the  son  of  Roger,  died  in  1673, 
leaving  by  his  wife,  the  daughter  of 
Lord  Barry,  Roger,  who  in  1688  mar- 
ried Helen,  the  daughter  of  Conor 
O'Bryen,  Lord  Viscount  Clare.  Having 
returned  home  sick  after  the  battle  of 
the  Boyne,  he  died  in  his  ancestral  Cas- 
tle of  Gort,  on  the  llth  of  July,  1690. 
He  was  attainted  on  llth  May,  1697; 
and  King  William  granted  all  his 
estates  (which  were  declared  forfeited) 
in  custodiam  to  Gustavus  the  first  Baron 
Hamilton;  but  he  soon  after  having 
obtained  a  grant  of  other  lands,  the 
King,  by  Letter  Patent,  19th  June  1697, 
granted  to  Thomas  (afterwards  Sir 
Thomas)  Prendergast,  "  in  considera- 
tion of  his  good  and  acceptable  services, 
all  the  estate  real  and  personal  of  Ro- 
ger O'Shaughnessie,  Esq.,  deceased,  in 
Gort-Inchigorie,  and  several  other  lands 
in  the  barony  of  Kiltartan,  and  county 
of  Galway.  Colonel  William  O'Shaugh- 
nessie, the  heir  of  Roger,  the  last  pos- 
sessor, having  died  in  exile  in  France, 
in  1744,  was  succeeded  by  his  cousin, 
germain,  then  Roman  Catholic  Bishop 
of  Ossory,  who  instituted  proceedings 
at  law  against  Sir  Thomas  Prender- 
gast, the  sou  of  the  patentee,  for  the  re- 


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"  Josephus  Ware  p  vxore  2°  Januarij, 

*'  Idem  p  eadem  4°  Januarij, 

"  Mr  Jackson  iuris  peritus  6°  Januarij, 

'Josephus  Ware  p'dictus  p  eadem  8°  Januarij,       .     .     .     . 

'  Mr  Jackson  iurisperitus  p'dictus  10°  Januarij,     .... 

*  Mr  Leake  p  se  et  uxore  12°  Januarij, 

'  Bichardus  Talbott  p'dictus  14°  Januarij, 

'  Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  20°  Januarij, 

"  Dna  Roberti  King  p'dicta  2  februarij, 

"  MrEdwardus  Boulton  Sollicitor  regius  $  filio  4°  februarij, 
"  Richardus  Talbott  p'dictus  p  filio  Johanne  6°  februarij,    . 

"Matrona  West  7°  februarij, 

"  Richardus  Blaney  p'dictus  9°  februarij, 

"  Daniel  o  Neille  p'dictus  12°  februarij, 

"  Bernardus  o  Corkraine  p'dictus  14°  februarij,      .... 

"  Sir  Jacobus  Moore  p'dictus  16°  februarij, 

"/amulus  Richardi  Talboti  p'dicti  17°  februarij,  .     .     .     . 

"  Sir  Jacobus  Moore  p'dictus  18°  februarij,       

"  Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  21°  februarij, 

11  Edwardus  Boulthon  p'dictus  p'filio  Nicholao  23°  febv. 
"  Jacobus /awle1  Cassilliensis  iuris  peritus  24°  februarij, 


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co very  of  the  estate  of  Gort.  Accord- 
ing to  Hardiman  ("Hist.  Gal.")  "these 
proceedings  were  continued  after  the 
bishop's  decease  by  his  next  relative, 
Roebuck,  and  after  his  death  by  Joseph 
O'Shaughnessy,  his  son,  who,  having 
to  contend  against  wealth  and  power 
without  the  aid  of  either,  was  ulti- 
mately defeated ;  and  thus  ended  one 
of  the  most  ancient  and  respectable 
aboriginal  families  of  Ireland."  It  is 
said  that  Bishop  O'Shaughnessy  of  Kil- 
laloe,'and  Dean  O'Shaughnessy,  of  Ennis, 
in  the  same  diocese,  were  descendants  of 
the  O'Shaughnessys  of  Gort.  Several 
brothers  of  Dean  O'Shaughnessy  set- 
tled in  Limerick,  and  lived  to  very  ad- 
vanced ages.  Sir  William  (O'Shaugh- 
nessy) Brooke,  of  the  late  East  India 
Company's  Service,  and  the  projector  of 
the  telegraphic  system  throughout  In- 
dia, a  gentleman  of  great  mental  en- 
dowments and  capacity,  is  son  of  the 
late  Captain  Daniel  Sandes,  otherwise 
O'Shaughnessy,  who  assumed  the  name 
of  Sandes  in  obedience  to  the  wish  of  a 
maternal  uncle  of  the  name  of  M°Mahon, 
who  realised  a  large  property  in  India 
under  the  patronage  of  Sir  Philip 
Francis,  which  he  promised  to  bequeath 
to  Captain  Sandes,  and  his  brother  Dr. 
Sandes,  who  was  attendant  physician  of 
the  County  of  Limerick  Infirmary.  Sir 


William  (O'Shaughnessy)  Brooke's  mo- 
ther was  first  cousin  of  Major- General 
Brooke,  of  the  East  India  Company's 
Service.  The  living  members  of  the 
ancient  family  of  the  Gort  O'Shaugh- 
nessys are  James  O'Shaughnessy,  Esq., 
Solicitor,  of  Dublin ;  Francis  O'Shaugh- 
nessy, Esq.,  of  London;  John  O'Shaugh- 
nessy, Esq.,  of  Limerick  ;  Dr.  Richard 
O'Shaughnessy,  of  London  (late  in  the 
E.I.  S.);  James  O'Shaughnessy,  Esq., 
Liverpool.  The  present  much-esteemed, 
and  highly-accomplished  Standish  Pren- 
dergast  Vereker,  fourth  Viscount  Gort, 
is  a  descendant  of  Sir  Thomas  Prender- 
gast,  and  grandson  of  the  "Hero  of 
Colloony,"  who  first  obtained  the  title 
of  Gort.  The  Gort  property  passed  into 
the  hands,  by  purchase,  of  the  late  F.  M. 
Viscount  Gough,  whose  only  son,  George 
Stephens  Gough,  M.  A.,  D.  L.,  Co.  Tip- 
perary,  the  second  Viscount,  now  re- 
sides at  Loughcooter  Castle,  Gort,  which 
magnificent  residence  was  built  near 
Cooter  lake  by  the  second  Lord  Gort. 

Jacobus  Sawle. — The  Saules,  or 
Sauls,  were  of  one  of  the  most  ancient  of 
the  Anglo-Norman  families  connected 
with  the  city  of  Cashel ;  their  monu- 
ment of  carved  marble,  in  the  ancient 
Cathedral  of  Cashel,  is  dated  1574;  it 
bears  the  motto  LAVS  DEO  ;  and 
over  the  shield  on  which  the  arms  are 


248 

£  s.  d. 

"  Sir  Doudleus  Northon  p'dictus  25°  februarij,      ....  01  00  0    . 

"Robertus  Johannis  Arthurius  26°  februarij, 00  10  6 

"Richardus  Talbottus  p'dictus  28°  Jarmarij, 00  10  0 

•'  Dna  Jacob!  Moore  p'dicta  1°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"Matrona  West  p  filia  3°  Martij, 01  00  0 

"  Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  5°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"Olivarius  Barneville  7°  Martij, 00  15  0 

"  Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  8°  Martij, 00  10  0 

"Sir  Jacobus  Moore  p'dictus  10°  Martij, 01  2  0 

"Dna  Baltinglass  p'dicta  12°  Martij, 00  10  0 

*'  Maria  "Wentworth  ancilla  Matrone  Bodley  12°  Martij,  .     .  00  4  4 

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£278  4«.  4d.  ster.  pro  quibus  et  casteris  diuinffi  clementise 

donis  quibus  nostris  necessitatibus  Subuenire  dig- 

natur  ipsi  Deo  honor  &  Gloria  a  nobis 

rependitur  in  Ssecula. 

carved,  is  the  legend  on  a  scroll  Scutum  tion  of  Mayor  of  Cashel,  and  others  of 

Stall.    The  arms  on  the  shield  appear  to  them  were  extensive  merchants  of  that 

be  the  antlers  of  a  buck  with  a  label  of  five  city.     Bennet  Saul,  of  Cashel,  forfeited, 

points,   and  two  bucks  as   supporters,  in  the  rebellion  of  1641,  Carrowtobber- 

but  the  sculptor  has  placed  the  latter  more,  92   acres,  to  Mr.  Harman.     He 

rather  oddly.     There  is  a  finely-carved  also  forfeited  Carriginaveigh,   part  of 

tombstone  of  some  member  of  the  family,  Knockaneanneigh,  261  A.  2n.  23  P.,   of 

too,  in  the   cemetery  attached  to  the  which  Lord  Massereene  got  9A.  IR.  10p.; 

present  Protestant  Church  of  that  city.  Charles  Alcock,  123  A.  ;  Edmond  Pyke, 

Of  the  same  family  of  Cashel  was  An-  102  A.  ;  and  Mary  Scott,  119  A.  OB.  6  P. 

drew  Saul,  the  Jesuit,  who  made  a  noise  In  this  distribution  there  were   100  A. 

in  the    early  part   of  the   seventeenth  1  R.  22  p.,  which  Paul  Boyton,  a  citizen 

century  by  his  having  separated  himself  of  Cashel,  also  forfeited, 
from  the  Church   of  Rome,   and  gone  In  1613,  John   Saule  and  John  Haly 

over  to  Protestantism,  in  the  interests  represented  Cashel  in  the  Irish  Parlia- 

of  which  he  wrote  more  than  one  book.  ment.  Thename  just  now  is  notinexist- 

The  Most  Rev.  Dr.  Ffrench,  Bishop  of  ence  in  Cashel. 

Ferns,  author  of  "  The  Bleeding  Iphe-  1  Viscount  Netterville,  of  Dowth, 
genia,"  and  other  works,  wrote  "The  county  Meath,  married  first  Eleanor, 
Dolefull  Fall  of  Andrew  Saul,"  in  reply  daughter  of  Sir  John  Bathe,  of  Drum- 
to  the  writings  of  the  ex-Jesuit;  and  conrath,  county  Dublin  ;  and  secondly, 
Dr.  Ffrench's  work  is  held  in  high  esteem  Mary,  the  relict  of  Sir  Thomas  Hibbots, 
to  the  present  day  as  a  powerful  expose  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  Ireland, 
of  the  proceedings  of  Andrew  Saul.  Se-  The  term  "junior"  is  used  probably  by 
veral  of  the  Saul  family  filled  the  posi-  Dr.  Arthur  to  indicate  the  second  wife. 


(To  le  continued.} 


INDEX. 


ABBEY  OWHNY,  197. 

Adare,  town  of,  ib. 

Altar  stone  found  at  Clonmacnoise,  71. 

Andrews,  George,  167. 

Archer,  arms  of,  221. 

family  of,  220. 

family,  wills  of,  229. 

Ardmore  Round  Tower,  repairs  of,  72. 
Arthur,  Dr.  Thomas,  family  of,  17. 
Askeaton,  ancient  name  of,  79. 

Castle,  ib. 

Auburn  Lake,  ancient  bell  found  at,  209. 
Aylmer,  Co.  Kildare,  family  of,  170. 


Ballicar  Castle,  76. 

Lough,  77. 

Ballingard,  now  Paradise  Hill,  85. 

Ballingarde  Castle,  196. 

Ballinrinka  Castle,  antiquities  found  at,  205. 

Ballon  Hill,  Pagan  cists  at,  209. 

Ballyclogh  Castle,  now  Stone  Hall,  81. 

Ballyhoe,  lake  of,  8. 

Bally  kitt,  192. 

Barnwell,  family  of,  173. 

Baron  de  Erley,  6. 

Bastion  on  town  wall  of  Kilkenny,  101. 

Beau- Lieu,  202. 

Bell,  Irish,  description  of,  102. 

ancient,  found  at  Auburn  Lake,  209. 

Berkley,  Sir  Francis,  79. 

Blake,  John,  of  Gal  way,  174. 

Blazing  Star,  account  of,  90. 

Blount,  Colonel  John,  190. 

Bogs,  fir  timber  found  in,  77. 

Bolton,  Edmund,  Historian  and  Antiquary, 

175. 

Bomfield,  family  of,  24. 
Boundary  stone,  5. 
Bourchier,  arms  of,  196. 
Bourk,  Theobald,  monument  of,  198. 
Bourke,  "William,  Baron  Castleconnell,  46. 

family  of,  243. 

Brabazon,  family  of,  244. 
Bramblestown,  ancient  name  of,  115. 


Brenans,  the  Three,  captured  in  Chester,  33. 

Brooke,  family  of,  241. 

Bronze  sword,  with  bone  haft,  72. 

Bunratty  Castle,  view  of,  87. 

Burrin,  Barony  of,  88,  191. 


Cahir  Castle,  80. 

Callan  river,  Nial  Caille  drowned  in,  124. 

Cannon  Island,  85. 

Carrigfoyle  Castle,  202. 

Carrigholt  Castle,  chief  seat  of  the  Mac 
Mahons,  188. 

granted  to  the  O'Briens.  189. 

Carrigogunnell,  Castle  of,  89. 

Carigkenlish,  197. 

Castle  Connell,  200. 

Castleconnell,  Lord,  case  of,  46. 

Castle  Maine,  79. 

Cearbhall,  King  of  Ossory,  114. 

Chichester,  Sir  Arthur,  ancestor  to  the  Mar- 
quis of  Donegal,  and  to  Viscount  Tem- 
plemore,  27. 

Cists,  Pagan,  found  at  Ballon  Hill,  209. 

Clare  Abbey,  185. 

Clare  Castle,  78,  183. 

Clogh-an-umpy,  meaning  of,  190. 

Clonmacnoise,  altar  stone  found  at,  71. 

Clonrond  Castle,  181. 

Clotworthy,  family  of,  240. 

Coaches  from  Kilkenny  to  Dublin  in  olden 
times,  118. 

Cogan,  family  of,  210. 

Colpoys,  John,  76. 

Comet  of  1680-1,  91. 

Committee,  Annual  Report  of,  2, 

Coney  Island,  84. 

Coote,  family  of,  151. 

Corcomroe,  191. 

Barony  of,  86. 

Corgrage  Castle,  187,  188. 

Craig  Owhny,  198. 

Cranm  gs  in  Ballyhoe  Lake,  antiquities  dis- 
covered at,  8. 

Crossy-Brennan,  205. 


250 


Cromaghan  Castle,  84. 
Cullen,  Thomas,  81. 

Cup-shaped  stone,  found  in  the  Cathedral  of 
St.  Canice,  71. 


Danes,  attacks  by  the,  112. 

massacre  of  the,  115. 

Danesfort,  anciently  called  Dunfert,  238. 

Darcy,  Patrick,  167. 

Daverin,  ancient  name  of,  171. 

De  Burgo,  William,  Governor  of  Limerick, 

89. 
De  Clare,  88. 

-  Richard,  203. 
Devenishe,  family  of,  148. 
Dillon,  Colonel  Carey,  174. 
Dineley,  extracts  from  Journal  of,  10,  73, 

176. 

Dineley,  family  of,  203. 
Donogoroge  Castle,  Ib7. 
Droichel  Castle,  74. 

Dromcliff,  Round  Tower,  remains  of,  at,  182. 
Dublin,  old  road  to,  117. 
Ducks,  decoy  for,  201. 
Dun-Cearbhall,  125. 
Dunraven,  Quin,  the  family    name  of  the 

Earl  of,  141. 
Durrow,  Saxon  coin  found  at,  72. 


Earl's  Rath,  ancient  name  of,  123. 

Ellice,  family  of,  30. 

Ennis,  184. 

Ensignmen,  43. 

Evans,  Rice,  family  of,  163. 


Pagan,  family  of,  163. 

Parrel,  Captain  Charles,  case  of,  45. 

Feartagh,  Round  Tower  of,  124. 

Fee  Book  of  a  Physician  of  the  Seventeenth 

Century,  139,  239. 
Fitz  Gerald  of  Caherass,  family  of,  28. 

Sir  John,  of  Decies,  family  of,  26. 

Fitzmaurice,  Patrick,  162. 

Fitzpatrick,  pedigree  of,  112. 

Fort,  square  earthen,  4. 

Fort  Fergus,  86. 

Foules,  Mr.,  74. 

Franciscan  Abbey,  Kilkenny,  repairs  of,  70. 

Fytton,  Sir  Edward,  79. 


Galmoy,  derivation  of,  124. 

Galway,   materials  of  County   History  of, 

from  Ordnance  Survey,  215. 
Galway,  Sir  Jeoffrey,  143. 
Gareendina  Hill,  square  earthen  fort  at,  4. 


Carton,  Co.  Donegal,   Irish  bell  found  at, 

102. 

Gavin,  family  of,  141. 
Glancoyne  Castle,  193. 
Glashare,  old  church  of,  124. 
Clyde,  river,  8. 
Glyn  Castle,  siege  of,  186. 
Gould,  family  of,  244. 

Annabel,  monument  of,  198. 

Greatreakes,  family  of,  25,  28. 


Halbolin,  194. 

Harris,  family  of,  141. 

Heresy,  two  Irishmen  burned  for, 

Hickman,  Walter,  185. 

Hog  Island,  189. 


Ibrickane,  Barony  of,  86. 
Inchiquin,  Earl  of,  200. 
Ingoldesby,  Sir  George,  197. 
Inis-Cealtra  Island,  83. 
Inish  Carker,  84. 
Inishmacowney,  ib. 
Inish  Moor,  or  Deer  Island,  ib. 
Inish-na-drone,  ib. 
Inishneganagh  Priory,  86. 
Islands  in  Shannon,  view  of,  85. 
Ivers,  Henry,  of  Mount  Ivers,  73. 


Jerpoint  Abbey,  207. 

Jones,  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  148. 


Kilkenny,   County  and  City  Topographical 

and  Historical  Illustrations  of,  109. 

—  ancient  roads  of,  129. 

Castle,  ancient  views  of,  126. 

supposed  to  be    built  on  the  site  of 

Dun  Cearbhall,  125. 

—  town  wall  of,  101. 
Killaloe,  199. 

—  Bishoprick  of,  201. 

Killeney,  inscribed    boundary  stone   found 

at,  5. 

Kilrush,  190. 

King,  John,  Clerk  of  the  Hanaper,  190. 
Knapogue  Castle,  178. 
Knockannaneeve,  198. 


Lambay  Island,  remarkable  cure  of  Primate 

Ussher  at,  147. 
Leitrim,  materials  of  County  History  of,  from 

Ordnance  Survey,  218. 
Limerick  Castle,  203. 
Liscaghan  Castle,  193. 


251 


I.ixnaw  Castle,  202. 
Loft  us,  family  of,  240. 
Loopshead,  189. 
Lough  Gurr,  139,  194. 


MacCarthy,  family  of,  242. 
M'Clanchys,  Brehons  of  Thomond,  81. 
Mac  Donnell,  Earl   of  Antrim,    family   of, 
240. 

Sir  Randal,  169. 

Sir  Randal  M'Sorley,  27. 

Malachy,  King  of  Meath,  114. 
M'Mahons,  chief  seat  of,  188. 

—  family  of,  188,  190. 

Mac  Namara,  family  of,  140,  176, 178,  182. 
monument  of,  181. 

—  tomb  of,  180. 

Monsel,  Aphra,  monument  of,  198. 

Marriage  of  James,  Viscount  Thurles,  after- 
wards Duke  of  Ormonde,  some  Additional 
Facts  as  to  the,  232. 

Mayo,  materials  of  County  History  of,  from 
Ordnance  Survey,  212. 

—  Viscount,  243. 

Meetings  of  the  Society,  1,  69,  101,  205. 

Merchants'  marks,  221. 

Mooncoin,  bronze  medal  found  at,  208. 

Moore,  Viscount,  family  of,  242. 

Mount  Ivers  Castle,  75. 

Munford,  Mrs.,  nineteen  sons  of,  102. 

Muskerry,  Viscount,  242. 

Muyree  Castle,  77. 


Nore,  ford  over  the,  at  Maddoxtown,  120. 


O'Brien's  Bridge,  198,  200. 

O'Brien,  family  of,  25,  79,  89,  198,  202. 

Arra,  139. 

—  Donough    Cairbreach,    paid    homage 
to  King  John,  89. 
Donnell  More,  79. 


O'Connors,  The,  88. 

O'Donohoe  of  the  Glen,  family  of,  26. 

O'Hanlon,  family  of,  67. 

Hugh,  petition  of,  59. 

—  Redmond,  the  Tory,    history   of,  60, 

67. 

Death  of,  67. 

O'Loughlin,  family  of,  191. 

O'Moore,  Roger,  243. 

O'Neills,  The,  Earls  of  Tyrone,  the  last  of, 

91. 
O'Neil,  last  Earl  of  Tvrone,  descendants  of, 

9]. 


Ossory,  history  and  succession  of  the  kings 

of,  111. 
Ossory,  ancient  mansion-place  of  the  Kings 

of,  109. 

attacked  by  the  Danes,  112. 

Ordnance  Survey,  materials  of  Irish  County 

History  from,  103,  212. 
Outrath,  ancient  name  of,  116. 


Pagan  interment,  7. 

Park,   near    Ballacolla,    Pagan  interments 

discovered  at,  7. 
Parsons,  Sir  William,  157. 
Parteene,  200. 

Bridge,  inscription  on,  201. 

Pelham,  Sir  William,  202. 
Percivall,  Hugh,  arms  of,  74. 
Physician,  Irish,  earliest  mention  of,  10. 

Fee-book  of,  23. 

learning  of,  12. 

letter  of,  47. 

mode  of  treating  diseases  by,  11. 

names  of,  13. 

privileges  of,  10. 

professional  history  of,  19. 


Prendergast,  family  of,  210. 
Preston,  Jennico,  154. 
Pynnar,  Nicholas,  159. 


Quin  Abbey,  179. 
town  of,  178. 


,  family  name  of  the  Earl  of  Dunraven, 

141. 


Rathfolan  Castle,  77. 

Rathlahine  Castle,  82. 

Rathmore  Castle,  197. 

Rathowine  Castle,  202. 

Rathsaran,  square  fort  af,  4. 

Rider,  John,  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  141. 

Ring  Money,  modern,  manufactured  for 
African  trade,  206. 

Ring  penannular,  209. 

Road,  old,  from  Kilkenny  to  Dublin,  117. 

Roighna,  ancient  district  of  Ossory,  123. 

Rone,  Earl  of,  102. 

Roscommon,  materials  of  County  History 
of,  from  Ordnance  Survey,  106. 

Rossmonaher  Castle,  86. 

Ross  Roe  Castle,  176. 

subterraneous  stream  at,  178. 

Roth,  Bishop  of  Ossory,  account  of  Kil- 
kenny by,  109. 

Round  Tower,  remains  of,  atDromcliff,  182. 

Ryans,  ancient  name  of,  28. 

Ryder,  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  190. 


252 


Sarsfield,  Viscount  Kilmallock,  28. 

Saxon  coins    found  at   Durrow,    Queen's 

County,  72. 
Scattery  Island,  188. 
Scbuille  Castle,  197. 
Sexten,  George,  ancestor  to    the  Earl    of 

Limerick,  25. 

Shannon  river,  description  of,  186. 
Skeleton,   gigantic,    found   at  Carrigogun- 

nell,  90. 
Skyddy,  family  of,  242. 

now  Scudamore,  ib. 

Sligo,  materials  of  County  History  of,  from 

Ordnance  Survey,  103. 
Southwell,  family  of,  147. 

—  Sir  Richard,  141. 
St.  Canice,  Cathedral  of,  140. 

cup-shaped  stone  found  in,  71. 

St.  Leger,  President  of  Ulster,  160. 

Sweetman,  family  of,  6. 

Sun  dials  on  stairs  at  Ballagh  Castle,  4. 


Tape  worm,  197. 

Talbot,  Richard,  of  Malahide,  170. 

Sir  John,  of  Malahide,  144. 

Tempo,  meaning  of,  190. 

Thomond  family,  account  of,  84. 

Tiles  found  in  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  71. 


Titchborne,  family  of,  149. 

Tomgraney,  201. 

Tories,  origin  of,  36. 

Tory  war  of  Ulster,  33. 

Treasurer's  account  for  1863,  70. 

Tuite,  Walter,  petition  to  the  Duke  of  Or- 
monde of,  42. 

Turning  stone,  190. 

Tyrconnell,  Countess  of,  152. 

Tyrone,  Earl  of,  curious  Devonshire  custom 
regarding  the,  102. 

Ussher,  family  of,  161. 

Primate,  remarkable  cure  of,  146. 


Vandeleur,  Giles,  83,  190, 
Vanhogarden,  Isaac,  189. 
Walshes  of  Castle  Hoel,  arms  of,  224. 
Wandesforde,  Sir  Christopher,  241. 
Ware,  Sir  James,  161,  170. 

—  wife  of  Sir  James,  168. 
Waterford,    Donough  Cairbreach  O'Brien, 

paid  homage  to  King  John  at,  89. 
Waynman,  Edward,  Captain,  161. 
Webbsborough,  ancient  name  of,  205. 
Wemys  family,  notice  of,  237. 
White  family  of,  24. 
Wolves  in  Ireland,  211. 


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